GHSA-2g8c-wcg8-r65cHighCVSS 7.5
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a2ed82d, contains a pre-authentication integer underflow...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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 (5)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-66033
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/2401
- https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/a2ed82d40964bbc0d64cd717aa0a5a892117d2e6
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-integer-underflow-dos-via-aes-gcm-cipher-negotiation
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-2g8c-wcg8-r65c