CVE 4.5 MEDIUM

Libssh: write beyond bounds in binary to base64 conversion functions_CVE-2025-4877

4.5 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

Description

There's a vulnerability in the libssh package where when a libssh consumer passes in an unexpectedly large input buffer to ssh_get_fingerprint_hash() function. In such cases the bin_to_base64() function can experience an integer overflow leading to a memory under allocation, when that happens it's possible that the program perform out of bounds write leading to a heap corruption.
This issue affects only 32-bits builds of libssh.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-4877
Source redhat
Published Aug 20, 2025 at 12:19

Affected Product

Affected Versions 0

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