CVE 6.5 MEDIUM

libssh2 – Free of Uninitialized Pointer in publickey List Cleanup_CVE-2026-58051

6.5 / 10
MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Description

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-58051
Source VulnCheck
Published Jun 28, 2026 at 01:32

Affected Product

Vendor libssh2
Product libssh2
Affected Versions libssh2 libssh2 0

CWE Classification

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