vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-3855)

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 21, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

A out-of-bounds write has been found in libssh2 before 1.8.1, where a malicious server could send a specially crafted packet which could result in an unchecked integer overflow. The value would then be used to allocate memory causing a possible memory write out of bounds error.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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