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High ALAS2-2026-3861 2 CVEs

Important: libssh2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Aug 17, 2026 · Updated Aug 17, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-66034: libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a13bb6c, contains a missing bounds check vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and a free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem. In libssh2_publickey_list_fetch(), the version 1 response parser reads a server-controlled comment_len value and advances the parse pointer without verifying sufficient bytes remain in the buffer, causing the out-of-bounds read to leak heap pointers from adjacent allocations defeating ASLR, followed by heap allocator state corruption when the error cleanup path frees an uninitialized pointer from a non-zeroed realloc() region. CVE-2026-66032: libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 5e47761, contains a double-free vulnerability in the sftp_open() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session. When a server responds to SSH_FXP_OPEN with SSH_FXP_STATUS containing FX_OK, the response data buffer is freed, and if a subsequent sftp_packet_require() call returns a specific error such as LIBSSH2_ERROR_CHANNEL_PACKET_EXCEEDED, the same pointer is freed a second time, enabling tcache dup conditions on glibc systems that allow overlapping allocations and function pointer overwrites.

Fixed packages 4

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 libssh2 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.9
Amazon Linux · 2 libssh2-debuginfo 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.9
Amazon Linux · 2 libssh2-devel 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.9
Amazon Linux · 2 libssh2-docs 0:1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.9

Vulnerabilities 2

  • High 8.8

    libssh2 Double-Free Heap Corruption via sftp_open()

    libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 5e47761, contains a double-free vulnerability in the sftp_open() function in src/sftp.c that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt the heap of any authenticated client opening an SFTP session. When a server responds …

  • High 7.5

    libssh2 Heap Out-of-Bounds Read via publickey subsystem

    libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit a13bb6c, contains a missing bounds check vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to trigger an arbitrary-length heap out-of-bounds read and a free of an uninitialized pointer via the publickey subsystem. In lib…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-66032.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-66034.html