libssh2 — security advisory
libssh2 through 1.11.1 grows its publickey list with SSH2_REALLOC but does not zero-initialize new entries before parsing populates them, so a parse failure reaching the cleanup path leaves libssh2_publickey_list_free operating on an uninitialized entry. A malicious SSH server offering the publickey subsystem can use a malformed response to make cleanup free an uninitialized, attacker-influenceable attrs pointer in a connecting libssh2 client.
- Products
- libssh2
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 1.11.1-r3, 1.11.1-r4
- CVEs
- CVE-2026-58051
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 13:44 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
libssh2 through 1.11.1 grows its publickey list with SSH2_REALLOC but does not zero-initialize new entries before parsing populates them, so a parse failure reaching the cleanup path leaves libssh2_publickey_list_free operating on an uninitialized entry. A malicious SSH server offering the publickey subsystem can use a malformed response to make cleanup free an uninitialized, attacker-influenceable attrs pointer in a connecting libssh2 client.
osv:ALPINE-CVE-2026-58051
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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