Bug 2494352 - CVE-2026-58050 libssh2: libssh2: Heap buffer overflow via integer overflow in publickey attribute allocation [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-58050 libssh2: libssh2: Heap buffer overflow via integer overflow in...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: libssh2
Version: 45
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Paul Howarth
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: CVE-2026-58050
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Reported: 2026-06-29 14:26 UTC by Srikanth Balasubramanian
Modified: 2026-08-17 15:03 UTC (History)
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Description Srikanth Balasubramanian 2026-06-29 14:26:15 UTC
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libssh2 through 1.11.1 reads an attacker-controlled 32-bit attribute count from a publickey-subsystem response and uses it in the allocation num_attrs * sizeof(libssh2_publickey_attribute) without bounds checking, so on 32-bit platforms the multiplication overflows to an undersized buffer. A malicious SSH server can then drive the attribute-parsing loop to write past the allocation, causing a heap buffer overflow in a connecting libssh2 client.

Comment 1 Aoife Moloney 2026-08-17 15:03:37 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora Linux 45 development cycle.
Changing version to 45.


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