Bug 2494119 - CVE-2026-56766 hydra: Hydra: Remote Code Execution via NTLM Authentication Stack Buffer Overflow [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-56766 hydra: Hydra: Remote Code Execution via NTLM Authentication St...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hydra
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Robby Callicotte
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-56766
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Reported: 2026-06-29 09:14 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-06-29 09:14 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-06-29 09:14:26 UTC
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Hydra through 9.7, fixed in commit 9cc84c2, contains a stack buffer overflow in NTLM authentication across SMTP, POP3, IMAP, NNTP, HTTP, HTTP-Proxy, and HTTP-Proxy-Urlenum modules when processing malicious NTLM Type-2 challenges. A malicious server can send a crafted NTLM Type-2 challenge with an excessively long domain string, causing base64-encoded response data to overflow a 500-byte stack buffer by 18 to 330 bytes, enabling remote code execution on systems without stack protection.


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