Uncontrolled Memory Allocation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package erlang-ssl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-ERLANGSSL-8740423
  • published21 Feb 2025
  • disclosed20 Feb 2025

Introduced: 20 Feb 2025

CVE-2025-26618  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-789  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream erlang-ssl package and not the erlang-ssl package as distributed by RHEL.

Erlang is a programming language and runtime system for building massively scalable soft real-time systems with requirements on high availability. OTP is a set of Erlang libraries, which consists of the Erlang runtime system, a number of ready-to-use components mainly written in Erlang. Packet size is not verified properly for SFTP packets. As a result when multiple SSH packets (conforming to max SSH packet size) are received by ssh, they might be combined into an SFTP packet which will exceed the max allowed packet size and potentially cause large amount of memory to be allocated. Note that situation described above can only happen for successfully authenticated users after completing the SSH handshake. This issue has been patched in OTP versions 27.2.4, 26.2.5.9, and 25.3.2.18. There are no known workarounds for this vulnerability.