Bug 2548491 - CVE-2026-61801 opkssh: moby/sys/user: Denial of Service via crafted user or group database files [fedora-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-61801 opkssh: moby/sys/user: Denial of Service via crafted user or g...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: opkssh
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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medium
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Assignee: Till Hofmann
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Blocks: CVE-2026-61801
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Reported: 2026-10-09 11:31 UTC by Ronit Dey
Modified: 2026-10-09 13:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2026-10-09 13:10:17 UTC
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Description Ronit Dey 2026-10-09 11:31:06 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

The `github.com/moby/sys/user` package provides Go utilities for parsing and looking up entries in Unix-style user and group database files. Versions before 0.4.1 do not sufficiently limit entries when parsing `/etc/passwd`- or `/etc/group`-style files, allowing an attacker who can supply a specially crafted file to cause excessive memory consumption and potentially terminate the affected process due to an out-of-memory condition. This issue is patched in version 0.4.1. As a workaround, avoid parsing attacker-controlled user or group database files, or validate and limit untrusted input before parsing it.

Comment 1 Till Hofmann 2026-10-09 13:10:17 UTC
opkssh already bundles version 0.4.1.


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