Out-of-bounds Read Affecting wolfssl package, versions <4.2.0+dfsg-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.14% (51st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-WOLFSSL-523341
  • published25 Sept 2019
  • disclosed24 Sept 2019

Introduced: 24 Sep 2019

CVE-2019-16748  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 wolfssl to version 4.2.0+dfsg-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wolfssl package and not the wolfssl package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

In wolfSSL through 4.1.0, there is a missing sanity check of memory accesses in parsing ASN.1 certificate data while handshaking. Specifically, there is a one-byte heap-based buffer over-read in CheckCertSignature_ex in wolfcrypt/src/asn.c.

CVSS Scores

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