Red HatCVE-2026-59843
Red Hat libssh: denial of service
No fix yet
A flaw was found in libssh. A remote authenticated peer can advertise a zero maximum packet size in SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_OPEN, causing later channel writes to loop indefinitely and consume CPU, leading to denial of service.
Affected versions
The source does not list versions here. See the source advisory for affected products and fixes.
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-835, CWE-400
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-59843
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-59843
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42922
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:55855
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62217
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:62218
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-59843
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2498176