CVE-2016-10708
HIGH 7.5EPSS 15.7%
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 CNA
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v3.0 NVD
- 7.5 HIGH
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - CVSS v2.0 NVD
- 5.0 MEDIUM
AV: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-2016-107081★ · 2025-09-29
Security advisories
- https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.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=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d167…
- 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://usn.ubuntu.com/3809-1
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284