| Name | CVE-2016-10708 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-1257-1, DLA-1500-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openssh (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 1:6.7p1-5+deb8u10 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u6 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 1:7.4p1-10+deb9u9 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 1:8.4p1-5+deb11u3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security), bookworm | 1:9.2p1-2+deb12u3 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 1:9.9p1-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737
http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html
Flaw is not crashing the whole sshd daemon, rather the privsep process