vulnerability

OpenSSH Vulnerability: CVE-2016-6515

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 7, 2016
Added
Aug 12, 2016
Modified
Nov 27, 2024

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.

Solution

openbsd-openssh-upgrade-7_3
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