Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS2-2026-3329
Advisory Released Date: 2026-06-08
Advisory Updated Date: 2026-06-08
Severity:
Medium
Issue Overview:
A security vulnerability has been detected in libssh2 up to 1.11.1. The impacted element is the function userauth_password of the file src/userauth.c. Such manipulation of the argument username_len/password_len leads to integer overflow. The attack may be launched remotely. The name of the patch is 256d04b60d80bf1190e96b0ad1e91b2174d744b1. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue. (CVE-2026-7598)
Affected Packages:
libssh2
Note:
This advisory is applicable to Amazon Linux 2 (AL2) Core repository. Visit this FAQ section for the difference between AL2 Core and AL2 Extras advisories.
Issue Correction:
Run yum update libssh2 or yum update --advisory ALAS2-2026-3329 to update your system.
New Packages:
aarch64:
libssh2-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.aarch64
libssh2-devel-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.aarch64
libssh2-debuginfo-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.aarch64
i686:
libssh2-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.i686
libssh2-devel-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.i686
libssh2-debuginfo-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.i686
noarch:
libssh2-docs-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.noarch
src:
libssh2-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.src
x86_64:
libssh2-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.x86_64
libssh2-devel-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.x86_64
libssh2-debuginfo-1.4.3-12.amzn2.2.7.x86_64