libssh2 — security advisory
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 5e47761, contains a double-free vulnerability in the sftp_open() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session. When a server responds to SSH_FXP_OPEN with SSH_FXP_STATUS containing FX_OK, the response data buffer is freed, and if a subsequent sftp_packet_require() call returns a specific error such as LIBSSH2_ERROR_CHANNEL_PACKET_EXCEEDED, the same pointer is freed a second time, enabling tcache dup conditions on glibc systems that allow overlapping allocations and function pointer overwrites.
- Products
- libssh2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.11.1-r3, 1.11.1-r4
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-66032
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 5e47761, contains a double-free vulnerability in the sftp_open() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session. When a server responds to SSH_FXP_OPEN with SSH_FXP_STATUS containing FX_OK, the response data buffer is freed, and if a subsequent sftp_packet_require() call returns a specific error such as LIBSSH2_ERROR_CHANNEL_PACKET_EXCEEDED, the same pointer is freed a second time, enabling tcache dup conditions on glibc systems that allow overlapping allocations and function pointer overwrites.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2026-66032
libssh2
Fixed versions: 1.11.1-r3
libssh2
Fixed versions: 1.11.1-r3
libssh2
Fixed versions: 1.11.1-r4
libssh2
Fixed versions: 1.11.1-r4
Complete source record
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