CVE-2026-7598

NameCVE-2026-7598
DescriptionA security vulnerability has been detected in libssh2 up to 1.11.1. The impacted element is the function userauth_password of the file src/userauth.c. Such manipulation of the argument username_len/password_len leads to integer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. The name of the patch is 256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
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Debian Bugs1135647

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
trixie1.11.1-1vulnerable
forky, sid1.11.1-3fixed

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

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
libssh2source(unstable)1.11.1-31135647

Notes

[trixie] - libssh2 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bookworm] - libssh2 <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - libssh2 <postponed> (Minor issue, unlikely user/pass length)
https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1858
https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1

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