ssh: reject unexpected message types on established channels

ch.msg is only read while the channel open or a channel request with a
reply is pending, so anything the default arm of channel.handlePacket
delivered to it was never consumed. The blocking send there let a
misbehaving peer fill the buffer with well-formed but unexpected message
types carrying a valid channel id and stall the mux read loop,
deadlocking the whole connection.

No conforming peer sends such messages during the connection protocol.
Treat them as a protocol error and tear the connection down, as
handleUnknownChannelPacket already does for the same messages when the
channel id is not in use.

Fixes CVE-2026-56855
Fixes golang/go#81317

Change-Id: I87420dfe68fcb62a17df4b47dc5ffb6ccd72ba26
Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/crypto/+/826524
Reviewed-by: Roland Shoemaker <roland@golang.org>
LUCI-TryBot-Result: golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com <golang-scoped@luci-project-accounts.iam.gserviceaccount.com>
Auto-Submit: Neal Patel <nealpatel@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Husin <husin@google.com>
2 files changed
tree: 79b1942707885af0952436981fa447db1923cb71
  1. acme/
  2. argon2/
  3. bcrypt/
  4. blake2b/
  5. blake2s/
  6. blowfish/
  7. bn256/
  8. cast5/
  9. chacha20/
  10. chacha20poly1305/
  11. cryptobyte/
  12. curve25519/
  13. ed25519/
  14. hkdf/
  15. internal/
  16. md4/
  17. nacl/
  18. ocsp/
  19. openpgp/
  20. otr/
  21. pbkdf2/
  22. pkcs12/
  23. poly1305/
  24. ripemd160/
  25. salsa20/
  26. scrypt/
  27. sha3/
  28. ssh/
  29. tea/
  30. twofish/
  31. x509roots/
  32. xtea/
  33. xts/
  34. .gitattributes
  35. .gitignore
  36. codereview.cfg
  37. CONTRIBUTING.md
  38. go.mod
  39. go.sum
  40. LICENSE
  41. PATENTS
  42. README.md
README.md

Go Cryptography

Go Reference

This repository holds supplementary Go cryptography packages.

Report Issues / Send Patches

This repository uses Gerrit for code changes. To learn how to submit changes to this repository, see https://go.dev/doc/contribute.

The git repository is https://go.googlesource.com/crypto.

The main issue tracker for the crypto repository is located at https://go.dev/issues. Prefix your issue with “x/crypto:” in the subject line, so it is easy to find.

Note that contributions to the cryptography package receive additional scrutiny due to their sensitive nature. Patches may take longer than normal to receive feedback.