Russh is a Rust SSH client and server library. Prior to 0.63.1, a connection configured to permit mac=none can negotiate it with a MAC-requiring CTR or CBC block cipher because the selection logic validates needs_mac() only when MAC selection fails. A remote peer can then send a packet with a decrypted length of zero, causing russh/src/cipher/mod.rs to shrink the previously read block before indexing buffer.buffer[16..], which panics and terminates the connection task. This issue is fixed in version 0.63.1.
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| Description | Russh is a Rust SSH client and server library. Prior to 0.63.1, a connection configured to permit mac=none can negotiate it with a MAC-requiring CTR or CBC block cipher because the selection logic validates needs_mac() only when MAC selection fails. A remote peer can then send a packet with a decrypted length of zero, causing russh/src/cipher/mod.rs to shrink the previously read block before indexing buffer.buffer[16..], which panics and terminates the connection task. This issue is fixed in version 0.63.1. | |
| Title | russh: negotiating a MAC-requiring block cipher (CTR/CBC) with mac=none causes a slice-index-out-of-range panic | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-129 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-09-29T19:53:30.291Z
Reserved: 2026-09-29T17:25:25.265Z
Link: CVE-2026-102822
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-09-29T19:17:24.190
Modified: 2026-09-29T19:17:24.323
Link: CVE-2026-102822
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