CVE-2016-10708
high
CVSS v3
7.5
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.5
Description
sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and daemon crash) via an out-of-sequence NEWKEYS message, as demonstrated by Honggfuzz, related to kex.c and packet.c.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
83%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
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OS impact
| OS | Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|
| sles | affected | | |
| debian | 7.0 | affected | |
| debian | 8.0 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 14.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 16.04 | affected | |
| ubuntu | 18.04 | affected | |
| debian | bookworm | fixed | 1:7.4p1-1 |
| debian | bullseye | fixed | 1:7.4p1-1 |
| debian | forky | fixed | 1:7.4p1-1 |
| debian | sid | fixed | 1:7.4p1-1 |
| debian | trixie | fixed | 1:7.4p1-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| openbsd | openssh | {"endExcluding":"7.4"} | 7.4 |
| netapp | cloud_backup | - | |
| netapp | data_ontap | - | |
| netapp | data_ontap_edge | - | |
| netapp | oncommand_unified_manager | {"startIncluding":"9.4"} | |
| netapp | service_processor | - | |
| netapp | storagegrid | - | |
| netapp | storagegrid_webscale | - | |
| netapp | vasa_provider | - | |
References
- https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-10708.html
- http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102780
- https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-676336.pdf
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00031.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0003/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32485746?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3809-1/
- https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10708
CWEs
CWE-476
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.