CVE-2016-0777

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 63.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2016-01-14 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The resend_bytes function in roaming_common.c in the client in OpenSSH 5.x, 6.x, and 7.x before 7.1p2 allows remote servers to obtain sensitive information from process memory by requesting transmission of an entire buffer, as demonstrated by reading a private key.

Affected products

macOS: through 10.11.3
HP Remote Device Access Virtual Customer Access System: through 15.07
OpenSSH: 5.0, 5.0-p1, 5.1, 5.1-p1, 5.2, 5.2-p1 (+39)
Oracle Corporation Oracle Linux: 7
Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11.3
Sophos Unified Threat Management Software: 9.318, 9.353

References

http://kb.juniper.net/InfoCenter/index?page=content&id=JSA10734
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2016/Mar/msg00004.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-February/176516.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175592.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/175676.html
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-January/176349.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00006.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00007.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00008.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00009.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00013.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-01/msg00014.html

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