ALPINE-CVE-2026-66035

Source
https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2026-66035
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-66035.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/ALPINE-CVE-2026-66035
Upstream
Published
2026-07-24T17:17:35Z
Modified
2026-10-21T08:30:02Z
Severity
  • 7.7 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

libssh2 through 1.11.1, fixed in commit 42e33d8, contains a pre-authentication heap buffer overflow vulnerability that allows a malicious SSH server to corrupt heap metadata in any connecting client by sending a packet with a packet_length smaller than the cipher's block size during Encrypt-then-MAC cipher negotiation. In the fullpacket() function in src/transport.c, the ETM path allocates a buffer of packet_length bytes but copies blocksize minus one bytes via memcpy, causing an overflow that on 32-bit glibc writes attacker-controlled bytes into an adjacent chunk's SIZE field, enabling tcache bin confusion, overlapping live objects, and function pointer overwrite during the session handshake before authentication.

References

Affected packages

Alpine:v3.21 / libssh2

Package

Name
libssh2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libssh2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.11.1-r3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-66035.json"

Alpine:v3.22 / libssh2

Package

Name
libssh2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libssh2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.11.1-r3

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-66035.json"

Alpine:v3.23 / libssh2

Package

Name
libssh2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libssh2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.11.1-r4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-66035.json"

Alpine:v3.24 / libssh2

Package

Name
libssh2
Purl
pkg:apk/alpine/libssh2?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1.11.1-r4

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/alpine/ALPINE-CVE-2026-66035.json"