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vulnerability

Arch Linux: Information disclosure (CVE-2019-3858)

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 21, 2019
Added
Jul 11, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

An issue has been found in libssh2 before 1.8.1 where a server could send a specially crafted partial SFTP packet with a zero value for the payload length. This zero value would be used to then allocate memory resulting in a zero byte allocation and possible out of bounds read.

Solution

arch-linux-upgrade-latest

References

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