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It sounds like it’s the kernel but whether it has anything to do with ssh, I really don’t know. Sometimes parts work together in surprising ways, as I learned with the recent sshd/systemd/xz exploit.
You might be fine and this was the most alarming exploit since it’s very inconvenient, but personally I’d restart just to be sure.
Prompting for every single command seems like it’d suck