7.7 HIGH
- CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
- Attack Vector (AV): Network (N)
- Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
- Attack Requirement (AT): None (N)
- Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
- User Interaction (UI): Passive (P)
- Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): High (H)
- Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): High (H)
- 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): High (H)
- Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): None (N)
- Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
- Modified User Interaction (MUI): Passive (P)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): High (H)
- Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): High (H)
- 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
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libssh2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via publickey subsystem
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a13bb6c, contains a missing bounds check vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and a free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem. In libssh2_publickey_list_fetch(), the version 1 response parser reads a server-controlled comment_len value and advances the parse pointer without verifying sufficient bytes remain in the buffer, causing the out-of-bounds read to leak heap pointers from adjacent allocations defeating ASLR, followed by heap allocator state corruption when the error cleanup path frees an uninitialized pointer from a non-zeroed realloc() region.
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-heap-out-of-bounds-read-via-public… third-party-advisory
Affected products
- =<1.11.1
- ==a13bb6c773f0d55ad1628cede57e99803cd898d9
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 -
- nixos-unstable-small 0.2.0.9-unstable-2025-04-03
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nixos-26.05 -
- nixos-26.05-small 0.2.0.9-unstable-2025-04-03
pkgs.haskellPackages.libssh2-conduit
Conduit wrappers for libssh2 FFI bindings (see libssh2 package)
Package maintainers
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@mpscholten Marc Scholten <marc@digitallyinduced.com>
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@SuperSandro2000 Sandro Jäckel <sandro.jaeckel@gmail.com>