ubuntu-cve-2026-66032
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2026-07-24 17:17
Modified
2026-07-29 08:01
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
8.7 (High)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2026-66032",
  "modified": "2026-07-29T08:01:44Z",
  "published": "2026-07-24T17:17:00Z",
  "references": [
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-66032"
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      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-66032"
    },
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      "url": "https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/2180"
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    }
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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      "type": "CVSS_V4"
    },
    {
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      "type": "Ubuntu"
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}



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