CVE-2016-10708

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.

CVSS v3.1

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v3.0

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

5.0 MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

EPSS

15.72% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 97th percentile

Published

2018-01-21

Updated

2026-04-29

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• lggcs/CVE-2016-10708

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2016-10556
• CVE-2016-10709
• CVE-2016-10555
• CVE-2016-10717
• CVE-2016-10548
• CVE-2016-10718