A security vulnerability has been detected in libssh2 up to 1.11.1. The impacted element is the function userauth_password of the file src/userauth.c. Such manipulation of the argument username_len/password_len leads to integer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. The name of the patch is 256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| libssh2 | libssh2 | 1.11.0, 1.11.1 |
Downstream vendors/products affected by this vulnerability
| Vendor | Product | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| open source | open source libssh2 | cert_advisory | 90% |
Updated description to include Denial of Service attack capability and marked the vulnerability as actively exploited.
Initial creation
