CVE-2016-7406

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 3, 2017
Updated: Nov 4, 2025
Reserved: Sep 9, 2016

Description

Format string vulnerability in Dropbear SSH before 2016.74 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via format string specifiers in the (1) username or (2) host argument.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

GLSA-201702-23vendor-advisory
92974vdb-entry
[oss-security] 20160915 Re: CVE request for Dropbear SSH <2016.74mailing-list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1376353
https://secure.ucc.asn.au/hg/dropbear/rev/b66a483f3dcb
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2024/Aug/35

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