Bug 2562942 (CVE-2026-116774) - CVE-2026-116774 russh: russh: Denial of service via zero maximum packet size
Summary: CVE-2026-116774 russh: russh: Denial of service via zero maximum packet size
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-116774
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-28 16:32 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-28 17:17 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-28 16:32:33 UTC
russh is a Rust SSH client and server library that includes an SSH agent protocol implementation. From 0.60.0 until 0.65.0, channel-open parsing accepts a peer-declared maximum_packet_size of zero and passes it into ChannelTx::poll_writable in russh/src/channels/io/tx.rs. The Channel::data, Channel::make_writer, and Channel::into_stream asynchronous write paths then calculate a writable size of zero and remain pending forever because window adjustments cannot satisfy a static zero packet maximum. An authenticated client can strand server writes, and a malicious server can strand client writes, allowing affected tasks, channels, and connections to accumulate without surfacing an error. This issue is fixed in version 0.65.0.


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