CVE-2016-6515

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6515
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6515.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6515
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-08-07T21:59:09.943Z
Modified
2026-06-18T04:03:24.511222226Z
Severity
  • 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "vendor_product": "openbsd:openssh",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "7.2"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:openbsd:openssh:*:p2:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "vendor_product": "fedoraproject:fedora",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "24"
                }
            ],
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:24:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openssh/openssh-portable

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
99522ba7ec6963a05c04a156bf20e3ba3605987c
Fixed
fcd135c9df440bcd2d5870405ad3311743d78d97
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "7.3"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "DESCRIPTION",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

Other
ABOUT_TO_ADD_INET_ATON
AFTER_FREEBSD_PAM_MERGE
AFTER_KRB5_GSSAPI_MERGE
BEFORE_FREEBSD_PAM_MERGE
BEFORE_KRB5_GSSAPI_MERGE
POST_KRB4_REMOVAL
PRE-REORDER
PRE_CYGWIN_MERGE
PRE_DAN_PATCH_MERGE
PRE_FIXPATHS_INTEGRATION
PRE_HPUX_INTEGRATION
PRE_IPV6
PRE_KRB4_REMOVAL
PRE_NEW_LOGIN_CODE
PRE_SW_KRBV
V_1_2PRE17
V_1_2_1_PRE18
V_1_2_1_PRE19
V_1_2_1_PRE20
V_1_2_1_PRE21
V_1_2_1_PRE22
V_1_2_1_PRE23
V_1_2_1_PRE24
V_1_2_1_PRE25
V_1_2_1_PRE26
V_1_2_1_PRE27
V_1_2_2
V_1_2_2_P1
V_1_2_2_PRE28
V_1_2_2_PRE29
V_1_2_3
V_1_2_3_PRE1
V_1_2_3_PRE2
V_1_2_3_PRE3
V_1_2_3_PRE4
V_1_2_3_PRE5
V_1_2_3_TEST1
V_1_2_3_TEST2
V_1_2_3_TEST3
V_1_2_PRE10
V_1_2_PRE11
V_1_2_PRE12
V_1_2_PRE13
V_1_2_PRE14
V_1_2_PRE15
V_1_2_PRE16
V_1_2_PRE4
V_1_2_PRE5
V_1_2_PRE6
V_1_2_PRE7
V_1_2_PRE8
V_1_2_PRE9
V_2_0_0_BETA1
V_2_0_0_BETA2
V_2_0_0_TEST1
V_2_1_0
V_2_1_0_P1
V_2_1_0_P2
V_2_1_0_P3
V_2_1_1_P1
V_2_1_1_P2
V_2_1_1_P3
V_2_1_1_P4
V_2_2_0_P1
V_2_3_0_P1
V_2_5_0_P1
V_2_5_1_P1
V_2_5_1_P2
V_2_5_2_P1
V_3_0_1_P1
V_3_0_P1
V_3_1_P1
V_3_2_2_P1
V_3_4_P1
V_3_6_1_P1
V_3_8_P1
V_3_9_P1
V_4_2_P1
V_5_0_P1
V_5_1_P1
V_5_2_P1
V_5_5_P1
V_5_7_P1
V_6_0_P1
V_6_1_P1
V_6_2_P1
V_6_5_P1
V_6_6_P1
V_6_8_P1
V_6_9_P1
V_7_0_P1
V_7_1_P1
V_7_2_P1

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6515.json"