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| Rule General Information |
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| Release Date: | 2017-01-19 | |
| Rule Name: | Openssh Kex_input_kexinit Denial of Service Vulnerability (CVE-2016-8858) | |
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| Rule Protection Details |
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| Description: | 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. | |
| Impact: | An attacker can launch a denial of service attack by exploiting the vulnerability successfully. | |
| Affected OS: | Others | |
| Reference: | SecurityFocusBID:93776 SecurityTrackerID:1037057 |
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| Solutions |
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| More advisories have been published on the website, please visit for more suggestions: https://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/patches/6.0/common/013_ssh_kexinit.patch.sig |