CVE-2016-6515 in OpenBSD and Fedora Project Products
Published on August 7, 2016
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.
Products Associated with CVE-2016-6515
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Exploit Probability
EPSS
84.42%
Percentile
99.30%
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