CVE-2016-10708 Null dereference in n/a

What is CVE-2016-10708?

CVE-2016-10708 is a high-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 21 Jan 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-476

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-10708?

It affects 12 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Netapp Cloud Backup, Netapp Clustered Data Ontap, Netapp Data Ontap, Netapp Data Ontap Edge and 6 more.

How do I fix CVE-2016-10708?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2016-10708 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-10708 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Public exploit code: 1 proofs of concept on GitHub.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10708, DLA-1257-1, GHSA-fq52-jg4q-73hp, SUSE-SU-2018:1989-1, SUSE-SU-2018:2530-1, SUSE-SU-2018:2530-2 and 1 more.