[Secure-testing-team] Bug#841884: openssh: CVE-2016-8858: Memory exhaustion due to unregistered KEXINIT handler after receiving message

[Salvatore Bonaccorso]

Source: openssh
Version: 1:6.7p1-5
Severity: normal
Tags: security upstream

Hi,

the following vulnerability was published for openssh.

CVE-2016-8858[0]:
|Memory exhaustion due to unregistered KEXINIT handler after receiving
|message

If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8858
[1] http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/usr.bin/ssh/kex.c?rev=1.127&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
[2] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384860

Regards,
Salvatore