CVEvulnerability
CVE-2026-0968
3.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2026-03-26
- Last modified
- 2026-09-01
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.1 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 3.1 LOW — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
A flaw was found in libssh in which a malicious SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) server can exploit this by sending a malformed 'longname' field within an `SSH_FXP_NAME` message during a file listing operation. This missing null check can lead to reading beyond allocated memory on the heap. This can cause unexpected behavior or lead to a denial of service (DoS) due to application crashes.
Affected configurations
• libssh libssh (<= 0.11.3)
• redhat enterprise linux 9.0
• redhat enterprise linux 10.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18160 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:18683 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0968 Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2436982 Third Party Advisory
- https://www.libssh.org/2026/02/10/libssh-0-12-0-and-0-11-4-security-releases/ Release Notes