Bug 2530766

Summary: CVE-2026-78662 containers-common: golang.org/x/crypto/ssh: Denial of Service via channel request flooding [fedora-all]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: jkelly <jkelly>
Component: containers-commonAssignee: Lokesh Mandvekar <lsm5>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: bbaude, dwalsh, jnovy, lsm5, nicola.sella, pholzing
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Description jkelly 2026-09-09 12:00:54 UTC 
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Previously, a channel registered in the mux's chanList is not usable until it is established. A malicious peer was able flood the channel's incomingRequests, deadlocking the entire connection. Now, we add an atomic established state, set when a channel becomes usable. Until such a time, handlePacket drops every packet other than the open confirmation/failure, without blocking and without tearing down the connection.