CVE-2026-66034
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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Affected products
4- osv-coords2 versionspkg:rpm/opensuse/libssh2_org&distro=openSUSE%20Tumbleweedpkg:rpm/opensuse/libssh2_org&distro=openSUSE%20Leap%2016.0
< 1.11.1-4.1+ 1 more
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-4.1
- (no CPE)range: < 1.11.1-160000.5.1
Patches
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References
3- github.com/libssh2/libssh2/commit/a13bb6c773f0d55ad1628cede57e99803cd898d9nvdPatch
- github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/2202nvdIssue TrackingPatch
- www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-heap-out-of-bounds-read-via-publickey-subsystemnvdPatchThird Party Advisory
News mentions
2- ⚡ Weekly Recap: Rogue AI Models, $88M Bitcoin Theft, Water-System Attacks and Dangling DNS HijacksThe Hacker News · Aug 3, 2026
- libssh2 Vulnerabilities Allow a Malicious SSH Server to Corrupt Client MemoryCyber Security News · Jul 28, 2026