PublicDateAtUSN: 2016-08-07
Candidate: CVE-2016-6515
PublicDate: 2016-08-07 21:59:00 UTC
References:
 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6515
 http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/08/01/2
 https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3061-1
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.
Ubuntu-Description:
Notes:
Bugs:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=833823
Priority: medium
Discovered-by: Tomas Kuthan, Andres Rojas, and Javier Nieto
Assigned-to: mdeslaur
CVSS:
 nvd: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H [7.5 HIGH]

Patches_openssh:
 upstream: https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/fcd135c9df440bcd2d5870405ad3311743d78d97
upstream_openssh: released (1:7.3p1-1)
precise_openssh: released (1:5.9p1-5ubuntu1.10)
precise/esm_openssh: released (1:5.9p1-5ubuntu1.10)
trusty_openssh: released (1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2.8)
trusty/esm_openssh: released (1:6.6p1-2ubuntu2.8)
vivid/stable-phone-overlay_openssh: ignored (reached end-of-life)
vivid/ubuntu-core_openssh: ignored (reached end-of-life)
xenial_openssh: released (1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.1)
esm-infra/xenial_openssh: released (1:7.2p2-4ubuntu2.1)
yakkety_openssh: not-affected (1:7.3p1-1)
zesty_openssh: not-affected (1:7.3p1-1)
devel_openssh: not-affected (1:7.3p1-1)