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vulnerability

OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2016-8858

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Dec 9, 2016
Added
Dec 12, 2016
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

Description

The kex_input_kexinit function in kex.c in OpenSSH 6.x and 7.x through 7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending many duplicate KEXINIT requests. NOTE: a third party reports that "OpenSSH upstream does not consider this as a security issue."

Solution

openbsd-openssh-upgrade-latest
Title
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