OpenSSH Denial of Service Vulnerability via Long Password

CVE-2016-6515 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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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