NULL Pointer Dereference The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openssh (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published21 Jan 2018
- disclosed21 Jan 2018
Introduced: 21 Jan 2018
CVE-2016-10708 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:17.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openssh package and not the openssh package as distributed by Ubuntu.
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.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2016-10708
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/pdf/ssa-676336.pdf
- https://kc.mcafee.com/corporate/index?page=content&id=SB10284
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32485746?utm_source=f5support&utm_medium=RSS
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00031.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00010.html
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10708
- http://blog.swiecki.net/2018/01/fuzzing-tcp-servers.html
- https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=28652bca29046f62c7045e933e6b931de1d16737
- https://www.openssh.com/releasenotes.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20180423-0003/
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102780
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3809-1/
- https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K32485746?utm_source=f5support&%3Butm_medium=RSS