REDHAT-BUG-2493955: Buffer Overflow

Published Jun 28, 2026
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Updated

libssh2 through 1.11.1 reads an attacker-controlled 32-bit attribute count from a publickey-subsystem response and uses it in the allocation numattrs sizeof(libssh2publickeyattribute) 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.

Affected Software

1 affected component
libssh2 libssh2<=1.11.1

Event History

Jun 28, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·03:01 AM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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