A flaw was found in libssh. A remote authenticated client can issue SSH_FXP_READ requests with an arbitrarily large length, causing a libssh SFTP server to allocate excessive memory and potentially e…
Medium CVSS 6.5
Summary
A flaw was found in libssh. A remote authenticated client can issue SSH_FXP_READ requests with an arbitrarily large length, causing a libssh SFTP server to allocate excessive memory and potentially exhaust it through repeated requests.
In-depth triage
No in-depth report has been generated yet (DR-003 v2 AI pipeline is under construction).
Affected products
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Sources
- NVD DATABASE
Original Links
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42922 Vendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-59844 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2498177 Issue Tracking
Timeline
- nvd_ingest NVD