suse · CVE-2016-6515

Quick triage

Priority: medium Published: 2021-05-30 13:44:49 UTC Updated: 2026-04-18 16:03:33 UTC

View at Official suse advisory, NVD, CVE.org · CVE detail

Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2016-6515 severity moderate: SUSE including 355 source package names (amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20210304-hvm-ssd-x86_64, amazon/suse-sles-15-sp1-chost-byos-v20220127-hvm-ssd-x86_64, …), 446 product×package rows across 62 product lines (HPE Helion OpenStack 8, SUSE Liberty Linux 7, … (62 product lines)): Fixed 264, Known Affected 157, Known Not Affected 25.

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.

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