Bug 2562400 (CVE-2026-116773) - CVE-2026-116773 russh: russh: Denial of Service via unbounded memory allocation in extension handling
Summary: CVE-2026-116773 russh: russh: Denial of Service via unbounded memory allocati...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-116773
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-10-27 20:33 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-10-27 21:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-10-27 20:33:08 UTC
russh is a Rust SSH client and server library that includes an SSH agent protocol implementation. Prior to 0.65.0, the client Session::process_packet path in russh/src/client/encrypted.rs accepts repeated packets encoded with russh's private msg::EXT_INFO = 7 before authentication, while the standards-compliant EXT_INFO message number 82 does not reach the affected handler. The handle_ext_info function appends every parsed extension name to received_extensions without clearing, deduplicating, or bounding the vector. A malicious SSH server that deliberately sends private message number 7 can therefore retain an unbounded number of attacker-controlled extension names for the session lifetime, causing progressive client memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.65.0.


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