An authenticated SSH client that repeatedly opened channels which were rejected by the server caused unbounded memory growth, eventually crashing the server process and affecting all connected users. Rejected channels are now properly removed from the connection's internal state and released for garbage collection.
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Fri, 22 May 2026 03:30:00 +0000

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Description An authenticated SSH client that repeatedly opened channels which were rejected by the server caused unbounded memory growth, eventually crashing the server process and affecting all connected users. Rejected channels are now properly removed from the connection's internal state and released for garbage collection.
Title Invoking memory leak when rejecting channels can lead to DoS in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-22T02:31:27.064Z

Reserved: 2026-04-07T18:13:03.528Z

Link: CVE-2026-39827

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-22T04:16:21.497

Modified: 2026-05-22T04:16:21.497

Link: CVE-2026-39827

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Updated: 2026-05-22T04:30:25Z