pageant provides a PageantStream type that implements AsyncRead and AsyncWrite traits and can be used to communicate with a running Pageant instance. From 0.2.0 until 0.2.5, PageantStream::new in pageant/src/wmmessage.rs trusts a peer-controlled four-byte length prefix and buffers until len + 4 bytes are available without checking the fixed _AGENT_MAX_MSGLEN transport capacity. An application that bridges an SSH forwarded-agent channel to the raw stream can allow a malicious server to force large allocations or retain a partially filled frame, causing client memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.2.5.
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| Description | pageant provides a PageantStream type that implements AsyncRead and AsyncWrite traits and can be used to communicate with a running Pageant instance. From 0.2.0 until 0.2.5, PageantStream::new in pageant/src/wmmessage.rs trusts a peer-controlled four-byte length prefix and buffers until len + 4 bytes are available without checking the fixed _AGENT_MAX_MSGLEN transport capacity. An application that bridges an SSH forwarded-agent channel to the raw stream can allow a malicious server to force large allocations or retain a partially filled frame, causing client memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 0.2.5. | |
| Title | pageant: unbounded frame buffering on peer-controlled 4-byte length prefix (memory-exhaustion DoS) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-770 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
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Updated: 2026-10-27T20:27:30.852Z
Reserved: 2026-10-26T21:53:35.166Z
Link: CVE-2026-116775
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Status : Deferred
Published: 2026-10-27T21:18:06.103
Modified: 2026-10-27T21:18:06.330
Link: CVE-2026-116775
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