NVD
- Id
- 22222
- Name
- CVE-2016-8858
- Description
- ** DISPUTED ** The kex_input_kexinit function in kex.c in OpenSSH 6.x and 7.x through 7.3 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) by sending many duplicate KEXINIT requests. NOTE: a third party reports that "OpenSSH upstream does not consider this as a security issue."
- 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
- 2016-12-09
- Modified Date
- 2016-12-09
- Seq
- 2016-8858