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