CVE-2016-10012
HIGH7.8EPSS 0.02%Published: 1/5/2017Modified: 12/3/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2016-10012DEBIAN-CVE-2016-10012
Description
The shared memory manager (associated with pre-authentication compression) in sshd in OpenSSH before 7.4 does not ensure that a bounds check is enforced by all compilers, which might allows local users to gain privileges by leveraging access to a sandboxed privilege-separation process, related to the m_zback and m_zlib data structures.
Affected packages (2)
- Alpine/opensshfrom 0, < 7.4_p1-r0
- Debian/opensshfrom 0, < 1:7.4p1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |