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Red HatCVE-2026-84267

Red Hat SFTP backend: uninitialized resource

Red Hat

CVE-2026-84267 · Published Sep 1, 2026 · updated Nov 6, 2026

Medium4.3
Fix: upgrade to 1.60.2 or later
Red Hat advisory

A flaw was found in the SFTP backend in gvfs. When mounting a share, a malicious SFTP server can cause read_string() to allocate a buffer with a certain length but the function does not verify that the buffer is completely filled, leaving the remainder of the buffer containing uninitialized heap contents. If the server sends a short FXP_HANDLE reply, these uninitialized bytes are taken as the file handle. The client will then echo these uninitialized bytes back to the server on all subsequent requests using that handle. With a length of 128 bytes, this issue allows the malicious server to deterministically read uninitialized heap memory from the gvfsd-sftp process, leaking its heap base and the load address of the libgio library, resulting in a deterministic defeat of Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR).

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
gvfs
Product
>= 1.10.0, < 1.60.21.60.2
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