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Proof of concept for CVE-2016-8858

CVE History

CVE	Published	CVSS v3	CVSS v2
CVE-2016-8858 ↗	Dec 9, 2016Friday, 9 December 2016, 11:59	—	7.8 HIGH
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."