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openssh_dos — Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2016-6515, crashing OpenSSH servers via oversized password payloads that exhaust CPU resources during hash processing. | Kitploit
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openssh_dos

Proof-of-concept exploit for CVE-2016-6515, crashing OpenSSH servers via oversized password payloads that exhaust CPU resources during hash processing.

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Since OpenSSH servers don't restrict the login password length, you can cause these servers to crash by sending very long passwords which use massive amounts of a the server's CPU to hash. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2016-6515.

My POC can be downloaded here (you will need to unzip)

Usage:

openssh_dos [target IP] [target port]
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