Openssh: heap out-of-bounds read in red hat enterprise linux versions of openssh gssapi indicator cleanup due to missing null sentinel termination
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.7epss 0.7%
exploitation probability
0.7%top 51% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in OpenSSH. This vulnerability, a heap out-of-bounds read, occurs during the cleanup of GSSAPI (Generic Security Service Application Programming Interface) indicators when a trailing NULL termination is missing in the auth-indicators array. A remote attacker, under specific configurations involving GSSAPI authentication and a Kerberos environment, could exploit this to cause the SSH authentication path to crash or abort. This leads to a denial of service (DoS), impacting the availability of the SSH service.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
Red 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 Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat · Red Hat Hardened ImagesRed Hat · Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat · Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:36759https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47756https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:47757https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:54387https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58981https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-55654https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2462493