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CVE-2026-66033
8.7 HIGH
- CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): Low (L)
- Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): None (N)
- Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): High (H)
- Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): None (N)
- Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): None (N)
- Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Network (N)
- Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): Low (L)
- Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): None (N)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): High (H)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Negligible (N)
- Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Negligible (N)
- Safety (S): Not Defined (X)
- Automatable (AU): Not Defined (X)
- Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
- Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
- Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
- Provider Urgency (U): Not Defined (X)
- Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
- Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
- Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
- Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
Activity log
- Created suggestion
libssh2 Integer Underflow DoS via AES-GCM Cipher Negotiation
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a2ed82d, contains a pre-authentication integer underflow vulnerability in the ssh2_cipher_crypt() function in src/openssl.c that allows a malicious SSH server to crash any connecting client by negotiating AES-GCM ciphers during handshake. Attackers can exploit the underflow in the expression computing blocksize minus aadlen minus authentication tag length to trigger an out-of-bounds read and a memcpy call with a near-SIZE_MAX length argument, causing immediate process crash before any authentication occurs.
References
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Pull Request issue-tracking
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Patch Commit patch
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https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-integer-underflow-dos-via-aes-gcm-… third-party-advisory
Affected products
libssh2
- ==a2ed82d40964bbc0d64cd717aa0a5a892117d2e6
- =<1.11.1
Matching in nixpkgs
pkgs.libssh2
Client-side C library implementing the SSH2 protocol
pkgs.haskellPackages.libssh2
FFI bindings to libssh2 SSH2 client library (http://libssh2.org/)
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nixos-unstable 0.2.0.9-unstable-2025-04-03
- nixpkgs-unstable 0.2.0.9-unstable-2025-04-03
- nixos-unstable-small 0.2.0.9-unstable-2025-04-03
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nixos-26.05 0.2.0.9-unstable-2025-04-03
- nixos-26.05-small 0.2.0.9-unstable-2025-04-03
- nixpkgs-26.05-darwin 0.2.0.9-unstable-2025-04-03
Package maintainers
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@mpscholten Marc Scholten <marc@digitallyinduced.com>
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@SuperSandro2000 Sandro Jäckel <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>