vulnerability

Arch Linux: Arbitrary code execution (CVE-2019-3857)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Mar 25, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Nov 27, 2025

Description

An issue has been found in libssh2 before 1.8.1 where a server could send a SSH_MSG_CHANNEL_REQUEST packet with an exit signal message with a length of max unsigned integer value. The length would then have a value of 1 added to it and used to allocate memory causing a possible memory write out of bounds error or zero byte allocation.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

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