Bug 2565748 (CVE-2026-116775) - CVE-2026-116775 pageant: pageant: Denial of Service via unvalidated message length prefix
Summary: CVE-2026-116775 pageant: pageant: Denial of Service via unvalidated message l...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-116775
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-11-03 12:23 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-11-05 08:00 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-11-03 12:23:42 UTC
pageant provides a PageantStream type that implements AsyncRead and AsyncWrite traits and can be used to communicate with a running Pageant instance. From 0.2.0 until 0.2.5, PageantStream::new in pageant/src/wmmessage.rs trusts a peer-controlled four-byte length prefix and buffers until len + 4 bytes are available without checking the fixed _AGENT_MAX_MSGLEN transport capacity. An application that bridges an SSH forwarded-agent channel to the raw stream can allow a malicious server to force large allocations or retain a partially filled frame, causing client memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.2.5.


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