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kexkill — SSH KEXINIT flood tool exploiting CVE-2016-8858 to trigger memory exhaustion in vulnerable OpenSSH servers. Proof-of-concept for denial-of-service testing. | Kitploit
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kexkill

SSH KEXINIT flood tool exploiting CVE-2016-8858 to trigger memory exhaustion in vulnerable OpenSSH servers. Proof-of-concept for denial-of-service testing.

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The kexkill utility connects to an SSH server and sends a stream of KEXINIT packets. This may cause certain versions of OpenSSH to consume significant amounts of memory. See CVE-2016-8858 for additional details.

The latest version of the source code is available from Github:

https://github.com/dag-erling/kexkill

Bugs can be reported as issues in Github:

https://github.com/dag-erling/kexkill/issues

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