CVE-2026-39830: CWE-833: Deadlock in golang.org/x/crypto golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
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.
CVE-2026-39830: CWE-833: Deadlock in golang.org/x/crypto golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
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.
CVSS v3.1
Score 9.1critical
Affected software
pkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-go.crypto@1:0.0~git20151201.0.7b85b09-2ubuntu0.1~esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.4+esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm4?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~16.04.0+esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-apps-legacy/xenialpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~18.04.2+esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/bionicpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm4?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/bionicpkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-go.crypto@1:0.0~git20170629.0.5ef0053-2ubuntu0.1~esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionicpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~18.04.0+esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/bionicpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~20.04.0+esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/focalpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+20.04ubuntu1~esm3?arch=source&distro=esm-infra/focalpkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-go.crypto@1:0.0~git20200221.2aa609c-1ubuntu0.1~esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/focalpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~22.04.3?arch=source&distro=jammypkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+ubuntu22.04.1?arch=source&distro=jammypkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-go.crypto@1:0.0~git20211202.5770296-1ubuntu0.1~esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/jammypkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~24.04.4?arch=source&distro=noblepkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+ubuntu24.04.1?arch=source&distro=noblepkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-go.crypto@1:0.19.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm2?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/noblepkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-go.crypto@1:0.25.0-1ubuntu0.1?arch=source&distro=questingpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=questingpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+ubuntu25.10?arch=source&distro=questingpkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=resolutepkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+ubuntu26.04.3?arch=source&distro=resolutepkg:deb/ubuntu/golang-go.crypto@1:0.47.0-1ubuntu0.1~esm1?arch=source&distro=esm-apps/resoluteRun on your own infrastructure? Check whether these packages are installed with threat-finder — our free open-source scanner.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Osv Id
- UBUNTU-CVE-2026-39830
- Osv Schema Version
- 1.7.0
- Aliases
- []
- Ecosystems
- ["Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:20.04:LTS","Ubuntu:22.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:22.04:LTS","Ubuntu:24.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:24.04:LTS","Ubuntu:25.10","Ubuntu:26.04:LTS","Ubuntu:Pro:26.04:LTS"]
- Database Specific Severity
- null
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
Threat ID: 6a5fd0891010f89cc219845a
Added to database: 07/21/2026, 20:03:21 UTC
Last updated: 07/31/2026, 21:28:51 UTC
Views: 28
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