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Ubuntu: USN-3061-1 (CVE-2016-6515): OpenSSH vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3061-1 (CVE-2016-6515): OpenSSH vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/07/2016
Created
07/25/2018
Added
08/17/2016
Modified
04/25/2018

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openssh-server

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