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Low · 3.3 CVE-2026-116696 EUVD-2026-111387GHSA-9wfm-jcj8-jfv9

russh's SSH agent server is susceptible to unbound allocations via repeated SSH_AGENT_CONSTRAIN_CONFIRM messages

Published Oct 27, 2026 · Updated Nov 2, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

russh is a Rust SSH client and server library that includes an SSH agent protocol implementation. Prior to 0.65.0, russh::keys::agent::server::serve in russh/src/keys/agent/server.rs accepts repeated SSH_AGENT_CONSTRAIN_CONFIRM records while adding a key and appends every Constraint::Confirm record to the key's retained constraint vector without a count or memory limit. A process that can connect to the agent socket, including the remote side of a forwarded agent session, can repeatedly add constrained keys and cause renewable memory growth that persists for the process lifetime because keys without a lifetime constraint do not expire. This issue is fixed in version 0.65.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Eugeny russh < 0.65.0 —

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 No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rust-russh No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Red Hat Hardened Images 1 openshell +2 0.1.6-0.1.hum1 RHSA-2026:93904

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling yazi 26.9.1-r7 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io russh < 0.65.0 0.65.0 GHSA-9wfm-jcj8-jfv9

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