Critical
Security advisory
An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1 in the way SFTP packets with empty payloads are parsed. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2019-3860
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An out of bounds read flaw was discovered in libssh2 before 1.8.1 in the way SFTP packets with empty payloads are parsed. A remote attacker who compromises a SSH server may be able to cause a Denial of Service or read data in the client memory.
osv:CVE-2019-3860
Complete source record
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