GO-2026-5020

Invoking infinite loop on large channel writes in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

At a glance

Published
Updated
CVE
CVE-2026-39834
Aliases
GHSA-rm3j-f69w-wqmq

Description

When writing data larger than 4GB in a single Write call on an SSH channel, an integer overflow in the internal payload size calculation caused the write loop to spin indefinitely, sending empty packets without making progress. The size comparison now uses int64 to prevent truncation.

Affected packages

PackageVersions
Go · golang.org/x/cryptointroduced 0, fixed 0.52.0

References

Sources

SourceLicence
OSV.devCC-BY 4.0 — Go Vulnerability Database