DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68956

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Source

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-68956

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68956.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68956

Upstream

CVE-2026-68956

Published

2026-09-22T09:17:05Z

Modified

2026-09-23T17:00:08Z

Severity

7.1 (High) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/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

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling vulnerability in Erlang/OTP ssh allows an authenticated remote attacker to exhaust node memory by repeatedly opening session channels that are never assigned a handler. The "session" clause of ssh_connection:handle_msg/4 checks only minimal_remote_max_packet_size before calling setup_session/5, which unconditionally builds a #channel{} record and stores it in the ETS channel cache. The max_channels daemon option is consulted only by ssh_channel_sup:max_num_channels_not_exceeded/2, which counts supervisor children, so a channel that never gets a shell, exec, or subsystem handler is invisible to the limit and setting the option to a finite value does not mitigate the attack. RFC 4254 section 5.1 permits many session channels per connection, and each record costs only a few hundred bytes, so a single authenticated connection can accumulate channels until the node runs out of memory and the emulator terminates, affecting every application on it. No file contents, credentials, or write access are obtainable. This issue affects OTP from OTP 18.1.2 before OTP 27.3.4.18, OTP 28.5.0.7, and OTP 29.1.1, corresponding to ssh from 4.1.1 before 5.2.11.13, 5.5.2.6, and 6.0.6. Whether OTP before OTP 18.1.2, corresponding to ssh before 4.1.1, is affected is unknown.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-68956

Affected packages

Debian:12 / erlang

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown 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

1:25.2.3+dfsg-1+deb12u4

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

1:27.3.4.10+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-2

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-3

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-4

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-5

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-6

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-7

1:27.3.4.12+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

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:29.0+dfsg-1

1:29.0+dfsg-2

1:29.0.1+dfsg-1

1:29.0.2+dfsg-1

1:29.0.3+dfsg-1

1:29.0.4+dfsg-1

1:29.0.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68956.json"

Debian:13 / erlang

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown 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

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u2

1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u3

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

1:27.3.4.10+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-2

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-3

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-4

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-5

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-6

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-7

1:27.3.4.12+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

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:29.0+dfsg-1

1:29.0+dfsg-2

1:29.0.1+dfsg-1

1:29.0.2+dfsg-1

1:29.0.3+dfsg-1

1:29.0.4+dfsg-1

1:29.0.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68956.json"

Debian:14 / erlang

Package

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

Affected ranges

Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

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

1:27.3.4.9+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.10+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-1

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-2

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-3

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-4

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-5

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-6

1:27.3.4.11+dfsg-7

1:27.3.4.12+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

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-1

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-2

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-3

1:29.0~rc3+dfsg-4

1:29.0+dfsg-1

1:29.0+dfsg-2

1:29.0.1+dfsg-1

1:29.0.2+dfsg-1

1:29.0.3+dfsg-1

1:29.0.4+dfsg-1

1:29.0.6+dfsg-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency":  "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2026-68956.json"