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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-79775 EUVD-2026-65533GHSA-hqq5-m7fp-mqc3

rclone Archive Backend SquashFS Parser Denial of Service

Published Aug 25, 2026 · Updated Aug 29, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

rclone versions >= v1.72.0 and <= v1.74.4 (fixed in v1.75.0) contain multiple denial-of-service vulnerabilities in the archive backend's SquashFS parser, which relies on the github.com/diskfs/go-diskfs dependency. The parser fails to validate attacker-controlled superblock and metadata values before use. An attacker who can place or modify a SquashFS image in storage exposed through an rclone :archive: remote can craft a malicious image that triggers an integer division-by-zero panic (zero block size), an out-of-bounds slice panic (out-of-range inode metadata offset), or a non-progress CPU loop (truncated metadata stream). Variants 1 and 2 terminate the rclone process and, via 'rclone serve sftp', can crash the entire SFTP server; variant 3 causes sustained CPU consumption. Parsing is lazy, so a victim or remote client must address or descend into the malicious archive object to trigger it.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
rclone rclone 1.72.0 – ≤ 1.74.4 —

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 13 rclone No fix yet —
Debian 12 rclone No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rclone No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 26.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 24.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS rclone No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLE Micro 6.2 elemental 2.3.2-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24645-1
SLE Micro 6.2 elemental-register 1.9.3-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24645-1
SLE Micro 6.2 elemental-system-agent 0.15.2-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24645-1
SLE Micro 6.2 elemental-toolkit 2.3.5-160000.1.1 SUSE-SU-2026:24645-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed google-osconfig-agent 20261103.02-2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12512-1

Amazon Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Amazon Linux 2023 rclone 1.75.1-1.amzn2023 ALAS2023-2026-3129

Advisories 4

References