CVE-2016-6515
Published
CVSS v3
N/A
CVSS v2
7.8
HIGH
Affected
1
PROJECT
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.
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