Out-of-bounds Write Affecting libssh package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
low
0
10

CVSS assessment by Snyk's Security Team. Learn more

Do your applications use this vulnerable package?

In a few clicks we can analyze your entire application and see what components are vulnerable in your application, and suggest you quick fixes.

Test your applications
  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-LIBSSH-10598361
  • published4 Jul 2025
  • disclosed24 Jun 2025
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Jun 2025

NewCVE-2025-4877  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-190  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-787  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Write in the bin_to_base64() function in base64.c. An attacker can cause memory corruption by supplying very large input to ssh_get_fingerprint_hash().

Note: This is only exploitable on 32-bit systems.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1