CVE-2016-10708 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenSSH versions prior to 7.4, affecting products from vendors like Canonical, Debian, and NetApp. This flaw, a NULL pointer dereference, can be triggered remotely by sending an out-of-sequence NEWKEYS message. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (HIGH), it poses a significant risk of daemon crashes, though it requires no user interaction or privileges. There is no evidence of active exploitation, nor are there public exploits available in Metasploit or ExploitDB, and community discussion is minimal.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 7.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
14.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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