vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2016-6515: Moderate: openssh security, bug fix, and enhancement update (RHSA-2017:2029)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 7, 2016
Added
Aug 3, 2017
Modified
Jun 1, 2020

Description

The auth_password function in auth-passwd.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.3 does not limit password lengths for password authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crypt CPU consumption) via a long string.

Solution(s)

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