DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23943

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Source

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-23943

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23943.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23943

Upstream

CVE-2026-23943

Published

2026-03-13T19:54:15.783Z

Modified

2026-03-22T04:00:10.431577Z

Severity

6.9 (Medium) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/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

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Compression Bomb) vulnerability in Erlang OTP ssh (sshtransport modules) allows Denial of Service via Resource Depletion. The SSH transport layer advertises legacy zlib compression by default and inflates attacker-controlled payloads pre-authentication without any size limit, enabling reliable memory exhaustion DoS. Two compression algorithms are affected: * zlib: Activates immediately after key exchange, enabling unauthenticated attacks * zlib@openssh.com: Activates post-authentication, enabling authenticated attacks Each SSH packet can decompress ~255 MB from 256 KB of wire data (1029:1 amplification ratio). Multiple packets can rapidly exhaust available memory, causing OOM kills in memory-constrained environments. This vulnerability is associated with program files lib/ssh/src/sshtransport.erl and program routines sshtransport:decompress/2, sshtransport:handlepacketpart/4. This issue affects OTP from OTP 17.0 until OTP 28.4.1, 27.3.4.9 and 26.2.5.18 corresponding to ssh from 3.0.1 until 5.5.1, 5.2.11.6 and 5.1.4.14.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-23943

Affected packages

Debian:11 / erlang

Package

Name: erlang
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:23.*

1:23.2.6+dfsg-1

1:23.2.6+dfsg-1+deb11u1

1:23.2.6+dfsg-1+deb11u2

1:23.2.6+dfsg-1+deb11u3

1:24.*

1:24.0~rc1+dfsg-1

1:24.0~rc2+dfsg-1

1:24.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:24.0.2+dfsg-1

1:24.0.3+dfsg-1

1:24.0.4+dfsg-1

1:24.0.5+dfsg-1

1:24.0.5+dfsg-2

1:24.0.6+dfsg-1

1:24.0.6+dfsg-2

1:24.1+dfsg-1

1:24.1.1+dfsg-1

1:24.1.4+dfsg-1

1:24.1.5+dfsg-1

1:24.1.7+dfsg-1

1:24.2+dfsg-1

1:24.2.1+dfsg-1

1:24.2.2+dfsg-1

1:24.3+dfsg-1

1:24.3.1+dfsg-1

1:24.3.2+dfsg-1

1:24.3.3+dfsg-1

1:24.3.4+dfsg-1

1:24.3.4.1+dfsg-1

1:24.3.4.5+dfsg-1

1:25.*

1:25.0~rc1+dfsg-1

1:25.0~rc2+dfsg-1

1:25.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:25.0+dfsg-1

1:25.0.2+dfsg-1

1:25.0.3+dfsg-1

1:25.0.4+dfsg-1

1:25.1.1+dfsg-1

1:25.1.2+dfsg-1

1:25.2+dfsg-1

1:25.2.1+dfsg-1

1:25.2.1+dfsg-2

1:25.2.2+dfsg-1

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.10+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.10+dfsg-2

1:25.3.2.11+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-2

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-3

1:26.*

1:26.0~rc2+dfsg-1

1:26.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:26.0+dfsg-1

1:26.0.1+dfsg-1

1:26.0.2+dfsg-1

1:26.1.2+dfsg-1

1:26.2.1+dfsg-1

1:26.2.4+dfsg-1

1:27.*

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:27.0+dfsg-1

1:27.0.1+dfsg-1

1:27.0.1+dfsg-2

1:27.0.1+dfsg-3

1:27.1.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2+dfsg-2

1:27.2+dfsg-3~exp1

1:27.2.1+dfsg-1

1:27.2.1+dfsg-2

1:27.2.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2.3+dfsg-1

1:27.2.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.2+dfsg-1

1:27.3.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1

1:28.*

1:28.0+dfsg-1

1:28.0.1+dfsg-1

1:28.0.2+dfsg-1

1:28.0.4+dfsg-1

1:28.1.1+dfsg-1

1:28.2+dfsg-1

1:28.3+dfsg-1

1:28.3.1+dfsg-1

1:29.*

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc2+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23943.json"

Debian:12 / erlang

Package

Name: erlang
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:25.*

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u1

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u2

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u3

1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.10+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.10+dfsg-2

1:25.3.2.11+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-1

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-2

1:25.3.2.12+dfsg-3

1:26.*

1:26.0~rc2+dfsg-1

1:26.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:26.0+dfsg-1

1:26.0.1+dfsg-1

1:26.0.2+dfsg-1

1:26.1.2+dfsg-1

1:26.2.1+dfsg-1

1:26.2.4+dfsg-1

1:27.*

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:27.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:27.0+dfsg-1

1:27.0.1+dfsg-1

1:27.0.1+dfsg-2

1:27.0.1+dfsg-3

1:27.1.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2+dfsg-2

1:27.2+dfsg-3~exp1

1:27.2.1+dfsg-1

1:27.2.1+dfsg-2

1:27.2.2+dfsg-1

1:27.2.3+dfsg-1

1:27.2.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.2+dfsg-1

1:27.3.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1

1:28.*

1:28.0+dfsg-1

1:28.0.1+dfsg-1

1:28.0.2+dfsg-1

1:28.0.4+dfsg-1

1:28.1.1+dfsg-1

1:28.2+dfsg-1

1:28.3+dfsg-1

1:28.3.1+dfsg-1

1:29.*

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc2+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23943.json"

Debian:13 / erlang

Package

Name: erlang
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1:27.*

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u1

1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1

1:28.*

1:28.0+dfsg-1

1:28.0.1+dfsg-1

1:28.0.2+dfsg-1

1:28.0.4+dfsg-1

1:28.1.1+dfsg-1

1:28.2+dfsg-1

1:28.3+dfsg-1

1:28.3.1+dfsg-1

1:29.*

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc1+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc2+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23943.json"

Debian:14 / erlang

Package

Name: erlang
Purl: pkg:deb/debian/erlang?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Fixed

1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1

Affected versions

1:27.*

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.3+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.4+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.8+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-23943.json"