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8.2High CVE-2026-0966 Libssh

A flaw was found in libssh.

A flaw was found in libssh. The API function `ssh_get_hexa()` is vulnerable to a denial of service when processing zero-length input. This can be exploited remotely by an attacker during GSSAPI (Generic Security Service Application Program Interface) authentication if the server's logging verbosity is set to `SSH_LOG_PACKET (3)` or higher. Successful exploitation could lead to a self-Denial of Ser

What happened

A flaw was found in libssh. The API function `ssh_get_hexa()` is vulnerable to a denial of service when processing zero-length input. This can be exploited remotely by an attacker during GSSAPI (Generic Security Service Application Program Interface) authentication if the server's logging verbosity is set to `SSH_LOG_PACKET (3)` or higher. Successful exploitation could lead to a self-Denial of Service of the per-connection daemon process.

Does it affect you

Not enough information

No products recorded, so this cannot be matched against anything.

What to do

  • Follow the vendor advisory for the fixed release and any interim mitigation.
    access.redhat.com
  • Follow the vendor advisory for the fixed release and any interim mitigation.
    access.redhat.com
  • Follow the vendor advisory for the fixed release and any interim mitigation.
    bugzilla.redhat.com
  • Follow the vendor advisory for the fixed release and any interim mitigation.
    libssh.org

Vendor's affected list

rhel
Exactly 8.0

Sources

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