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CVE-2026-58051 (GCVE-0-2026-58051)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-28 01:32 – Updated: 2026-06-29 12:50
VLAI?
Title
libssh2 - Free of Uninitialized Pointer in publickey List Cleanup
Summary
libssh2 through 1.11.1 grows its publickey list with SSH2_REALLOC but does not zero-initialize new entries before parsing populates them, so a parse failure reaching the cleanup path leaves libssh2_publickey_list_free operating on an uninitialized entry. A malicious SSH server offering the publickey subsystem can use a malformed response to make cleanup free an uninitialized, attacker-influenceable attrs pointer in a connecting libssh2 client.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Assigner
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CVE-2026-58050 (GCVE-0-2026-58050)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-28 01:32 – Updated: 2026-06-29 12:27
VLAI?
Title
libssh2 - Integer Overflow in publickey Subsystem Attribute Allocation
Summary
libssh2 through 1.11.1 reads an attacker-controlled 32-bit attribute count from a publickey-subsystem response and uses it in the allocation num_attrs * sizeof(libssh2_publickey_attribute) without bounds checking, so on 32-bit platforms the multiplication overflows to an undersized buffer. A malicious SSH server can then drive the attribute-parsing loop to write past the allocation, causing a heap buffer overflow in a connecting libssh2 client.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
Assigner
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CVE-2025-15661 (GCVE-0-2025-15661)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-18 20:18 – Updated: 2026-06-23 16:13 X_Open Source
VLAI?
Title
libssh2 - Heap Buffer Over-read via sftp_symlink() in sftp.c
Summary
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 2dae302, contains an out-of-bounds heap read vulnerability in the sftp_symlink() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server or man-in-the-middle attacker to disclose heap memory contents or cause a crash by sending a crafted SSH_FXP_NAME response. Attackers can supply a link_len value larger than the actual packet data in SSH_FXP_NAME responses for SFTP READLINK and REALPATH operations, triggering a heap buffer over-read of up to target_len minus one bytes due to the missing validation of available packet buffer size before the memcpy operation.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Assigner
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Credits
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Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec)
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CVE-2026-55200 (GCVE-0-2026-55200)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-17 19:03 – Updated: 2026-07-01 03:55 X_Open Source
VLAI?
Title
libssh2 - Out-of-Bounds Write via Unchecked packet_length in transport.c
Summary
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 7acf3df contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in ssh2_transport_read() that fails to enforce upper bounds on packet_length field. Remote attackers can send crafted SSH packets with excessively large packet_length values to corrupt heap memory and achieve remote code execution.
Severity ?
8.1 (High)
CWE
- CWE-680 - Integer Overflow to Buffer Overflow
Assigner
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CVE-2026-55199 (GCVE-0-2026-55199)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-06-17 18:44 – Updated: 2026-06-18 15:31 X_Open Source
VLAI?
Title
libssh2 - Pre-Authentication DoS via SSH_MSG_EXT_INFO Handler
Summary
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 1762685, contains a pre-authentication denial of service vulnerability in the SSH_MSG_EXT_INFO handler in src/packet.c that allows a malicious SSH server to cause a client CPU exhaustion loop by sending a crafted extension count value. A malicious server can set nr_extensions to 0xFFFFFFFF during key exchange, causing the client to spin in a tight CPU loop for over 60 seconds because return values from _libssh2_get_string() are unchecked and the session timeout does not apply to CPU-bound loops.
Severity ?
CWE
- CWE-835 - Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Assigner
References
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Impacted products
Credits
Tristan Madani (@TristanInSec)
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