Previously, a channel registered in the mux's chanList is not usable until it is established. A malicious peer was able flood the channel's incomingRequests, deadlocking the entire connection. Now, we add an atomic established state, set when a channel becomes usable. Until such a time, handlePacket drops every packet other than the open confirmation/failure, without blocking and without tearing down the connection.
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Thu, 03 Sep 2026 10:00:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-400
CWE-417

Wed, 02 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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Description Previously, a channel registered in the mux's chanList is not usable until it is established. A malicious peer was able flood the channel's incomingRequests, deadlocking the entire connection. Now, we add an atomic established state, set when a channel becomes usable. Until such a time, handlePacket drops every packet other than the open confirmation/failure, without blocking and without tearing down the connection.
Title Prevent DoS on deadlocked undecided channel in golang.org/x/crypto/ssh
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Go

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-03T13:20:12.263Z

Reserved: 2026-08-24T23:36:15.738Z

Link: CVE-2026-78662

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-02T20:17:37.167

Modified: 2026-09-02T20:17:37.167

Link: CVE-2026-78662

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-03T09:45:03Z

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