ghsa-m92w-x6j2-5gc5
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Published
2025-03-01 00:31
Modified
2025-11-04 00:32
Severity ?
5.9 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

A flaw was found in the OpenSSH package. For each ping packet the SSH server receives, a pong packet is allocated in a memory buffer and stored in a queue of packages. It is only freed when the server/client key exchange has finished. A malicious client may keep sending such packages, leading to an uncontrolled increase in memory consumption on the server side. Consequently, the server may become unavailable, resulting in a denial of service attack.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-26466"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400",
      "CWE-770"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2025-02-28T22:15:40Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "A flaw was found in the OpenSSH package. For each ping packet the SSH server receives, a pong packet is allocated in a memory buffer and stored in a queue of packages. It is only freed when the server/client key exchange has finished. A malicious client may keep sending such packages, leading to an uncontrolled increase in memory consumption on the server side. Consequently, the server may become unavailable, resulting in a denial of service attack.",
  "id": "GHSA-m92w-x6j2-5gc5",
  "modified": "2025-11-04T00:32:21Z",
  "published": "2025-03-01T00:31:55Z",
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      "url": "https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2025/q1/144"
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      "url": "https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-26466"
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      "url": "https://www.qualys.com/2025/02/18/openssh-mitm-dos.txt"
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      "type": "CVSS_V3"
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}


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