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Low · 3.7 CVE-2026-102822 EUVD-2026-89205GHSA-p8qx-h547-fjw9

russh: negotiating a MAC-requiring block cipher (CTR/CBC) with mac=none causes a slice-index-out-of-range panic

Published Sep 29, 2026 · Updated Sep 29, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Russh is a Rust SSH client and server library. Prior to 0.63.1, a connection configured to permit mac=none can negotiate it with a MAC-requiring CTR or CBC block cipher because the selection logic validates needs_mac() only when MAC selection fails. A remote peer can then send a packet with a decrypted length of zero, causing russh/src/cipher/mod.rs to shrink the previously read block before indexing buffer.buffer[16..], which panics and terminates the connection task. This issue is fixed in version 0.63.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Eugeny russh < 0.63.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rust-russh 0.64.1-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rust-russh No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io russh < 0.63.1 0.63.1 GHSA-p8qx-h547-fjw9

References