GHSA-2g8c-wcg8-r65cHighCVSS 7.5

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a2ed82d, contains a pre-authentication integer underflow...

Published
July 24, 2026
Last Modified
July 24, 2026

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📋 Description

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a2ed82d, contains a pre-authentication integer underflow vulnerability in the ssh2_cipher_crypt() function in src/openssl.c that allows a malicious SSH server to crash any connecting client by negotiating AES-GCM ciphers during handshake. Attackers can exploit the underflow in the expression computing blocksize minus aadlen minus authentication tag length to trigger an out-of-bounds read and a memcpy call with a near-SIZE_MAX length argument, causing immediate process crash before any authentication occurs.

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