Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-58051: 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. CVE-2026-58050: libssh2 through 1.11.1 reads an attacker-controlled 32-bit attribute count from a publickey-subsystem response and uses it in the allocation num_attrs * sizeof(libssh2_publickey_attribute) without bounds checking, so on 32-bit platforms the multiplication overflows to an undersized buffer. A malicious SSH server can then drive the attribute-parsing loop to write past the allocation, causing a heap buffer overflow in a connecting libssh2 client.
Fixed packages 4
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libssh2 | 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.8 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libssh2-debuginfo | 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.8 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libssh2-devel | 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.8 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | libssh2-docs | 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.8 |
Vulnerabilities 2
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High 7.0
libssh2 - Integer Overflow in publickey Subsystem Attribute Allocation
libssh2 through 1.11.1 reads an attacker-controlled 32-bit attribute count from a publickey-subsystem response and uses it in the allocation num_attrs * sizeof(libssh2_publickey_attribute) without bounds checking, so on 32-bit platforms the multiplication ove…
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Medium 6.5
libssh2 - Free of Uninitialized Pointer in publickey List Cleanup
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 ma…