CVE-2026-66034

Published: July 28, 2026Last modified: August 24, 2026

Description

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a13bb6c, contains a missing bounds check vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and a free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem. In libssh2_publickey_list_fetch(), the version 1 response parser reads a server-controlled comment_len value and advances the parse pointer without verifying sufficient bytes remain in the buffer, causing the out-of-bounds read to leak heap pointers from adjacent allocations defeating ASLR, followed by heap allocator state corruption when the error cleanup path frees an uninitialized pointer from a non-zeroed realloc() region.

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• https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/a13bb6c773f0d55ad1628cede57e99803cd898d9
• https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/2202
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-heap-out-of-bounds-read-via-publickey-subsystem