CVE-2026-58051

Description

libssh2 through 1.11.1 grows its publickey list with SSH2_REALLOC but does not zero-initialize new entries before parsing populates them, so a parse failure reaching the cleanup path leaves libssh2_publickey_list_free operating on an uninitialized entry. A malicious SSH server offering the publickey subsystem can use a malformed response to make cleanup free an uninitialized, attacker-influenceable attrs pointer in a connecting libssh2 client.

References

• https://github.com/bikini/exploitarium/tree/main/libssh2-publickey-list-calc-poc
• https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/blob/master/src/publickey.c
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libssh2-free-of-uninitialized-pointer-in-publickey-list-cleanup