CVE-2025-4877
Libssh: write beyond bounds in binary to base64 conversion functions
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 4.5 Medium
- Published
- Aug 20, 2025
- Updated
- Aug 31, 2026
- Reserved
- May 16, 2025
Description
There's a vulnerability in the libssh package where when a libssh consumer passes in an unexpectedly large input buffer to ssh_get_fingerprint_hash() function. In such cases the bin_to_base64() function can experience an integer overflow leading to a memory under allocation, when that happens it's possible that the program perform out of bounds write leading to a heap corruption. This issue affects only 32-bits builds of libssh.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 4.5 Medium | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L | redhat |
Weaknesses
- CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
libssh |
|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat |
|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat |
|
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat | |
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat | |
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat |
References
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