CVE-2016-7409

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

The dbclient and server in Dropbear SSH before 2016.74, when compiled with DEBUG_TRACE, allows local users to read process memory via the -v argument, related to a failed remote ident.

Affected products

[UNKNOWN] dropbear: through 2016.73

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92973
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376353
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/6a14b1f6dc04
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-23
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/09/15/2
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92973
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376353
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/6a14b1f6dc04
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201702-23

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