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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-56855

Prevent DoS on deadlocked established channel in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

Description

Previously, after a channel has been established, a malicious peer could send crafted messages that would deadlock the entire connection. Now, we handle all RFC 4254 channel messages; global requests are handled explicitly. Then, treat all other messages as a protocol error and tear the connection down instead of buffering and blocking.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

golang.org/x/crypto golang.org/x/crypto/ssh

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 0.56.0affected

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