The vulnerability of the OpenSSH cryptographic protection mechanism, which allows a hacker to trigger a service failure.

The vulnerability of the sshpacketreadpoll2 function in the packet.c file of the OpenSSH cryptographic protection mechanism is caused by buffer overflow. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor, operating remotely, to cause a service failure such as reading beyond the memory lim...

ALPINE-CVE-2016-1907

The sshpacketreadpoll2 function in packet.c in OpenSSH before 7.1p2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service out-of-bounds read and application crash via crafted network traffic...