NVD

Id
21271  
Name
CVE-2016-6515  
Description
The auth_password function in auth-passwd.c in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.3 does not limit password lengths for password authentication, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crypt CPU consumption) via a long string.  
Reject
 
CVSS Version
2  
CVSS Score
7.8  
Severity
High  
CVSS Base Score
7.8  
CVSS Impact Subscore
6.9  
CVSS Exploit Subscore
10  
CVSS Vector
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)  
Pub Date
2017-01-19  
Published
2016-08-07  
Modified Date
2016-12-22  
Seq
2016-6515  

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