vulnerability

Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-26465: Detection of Error Condition Without Action

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N)
Published
Feb 18, 2025
Added
Aug 8, 2025
Modified
Dec 22, 2025

Description

A vulnerability was found in OpenSSH when the VerifyHostKeyDNS option is enabled. A machine-in-the-middle attack can be performed by a malicious machine impersonating a legit server. This issue occurs due to how OpenSSH mishandles error codes in specific conditions when verifying the host key. For an attack to be considered successful, the attacker needs to manage to exhaust the client's memory resource first, turning the attack complexity high.

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-openssh
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