Bug 2562394 (CVE-2026-116696) - CVE-2026-116696 russh: russh: Denial of Service via uncontrolled memory consumption in SSH agent
Summary: CVE-2026-116696 russh: russh: Denial of Service via uncontrolled memory consu...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-116696
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-27 20:22 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 20:29 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-27 20:22:08 UTC
russh is a Rust SSH client and server library that includes an SSH agent protocol implementation. Prior to 0.65.0, russh::keys::agent::server::serve in russh/src/keys/agent/server.rs accepts repeated SSH_AGENT_CONSTRAIN_CONFIRM records while adding a key and appends every Constraint::Confirm record to the key's retained constraint vector without a count or memory limit. A process that can connect to the agent socket, including the remote side of a forwarded agent session, can repeatedly add constrained keys and cause renewable memory growth that persists for the process lifetime because keys without a lifetime constraint do not expire. This issue is fixed in version 0.65.0.


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