A malicious SSH peer could send unsolicited global request responses to fill an internal buffer, blocking the connection's read loop. The blocked goroutine could not be released by calling Close(), resulting in a resource leak per connection. Unsolicited global responses are now discarded.
History

Fri, 22 May 2026 05:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-770
CWE-787

Fri, 22 May 2026 03:30:00 +0000

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Description A malicious SSH peer could send unsolicited global request responses to fill an internal buffer, blocking the connection's read loop. The blocked goroutine could not be released by calling Close(), resulting in a resource leak per connection. Unsolicited global responses are now discarded.
Title Invoking client can cause server deadlock on unexpected responses in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
References

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-05-22T02:31:27.208Z

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

Link: CVE-2026-39830

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-05-22T04:16:22.440

Modified: 2026-05-22T04:16:22.440

Link: CVE-2026-39830

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Updated: 2026-05-22T05:00:11Z