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CVE-2016-10708
- Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 15.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2018-01-21 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-476
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.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04
- Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
- NetApp Cloud Backup: all versions
- Clustered Data ONTAP: all versions
- NetApp Data ONTAP operating in 7-Mode: all versions
- NetApp Data Ontap Edge: all versions
- NetApp OnCommand Unified Manager for 7-Mode (core package): from 9.4
- NetApp, Inc. NetApp Service Processor: all versions
- NetApp StorageGRID: all versions
- NetApp StorageGRID Webscale: all versions
- NetApp VASA Provider for Clustered Data ONTAP: all versions
- OpenSSH: before 7.4 — fixed in 7.4
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: OpenSSH 7.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
- 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
- http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html
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