CVE-2026-66035

NameCVE-2026-66035
Descriptionlibssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 42e33d8, contains a pre-authentication heap buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt heap metadata in any connecting client by sending a packet with a packet_length smaller than the cipher's block size during Encrypt-then-MAC cipher negotiation. In the fullpacket() function in src/transport.c, the ETM path allocates a buffer of packet_length bytes but copies blocksize minus one bytes via memcpy, causing an overflow that on 32-bit glibc writes attacker-controlled bytes into an adjacent chunk's SIZE field, enabling tcache bin confusion, overlapping live objects, and function pointer overwrite during the session handshake before authentication.
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Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
libssh2 (PTS)bullseye1.9.0-2+deb11u1vulnerable
bookworm1.10.0-3vulnerable
trixie (security), trixie1.11.1-1+deb13u1vulnerable
forky, sid1.11.1-4vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libssh2source(unstable)(unfixed)

Notes

https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/2198
Fixed by: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/42e33d81577ed4b95d4b4f6f845e5ee8efe5eeb4

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