Improper Certificate Validation The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package wolfssl  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN14-WOLFSSL-11773196
  • published10 Aug 2025
  • disclosed24 May 2017

Introduced: 24 May 2017

CVE-2017-2800  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-295  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:14.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream wolfssl package and not the wolfssl package as distributed by Debian.

A specially crafted x509 certificate can cause a single out of bounds byte overwrite in wolfSSL through 3.10.2 resulting in potential certificate validation vulnerabilities, denial of service and possible remote code execution. In order to trigger this vulnerability, the attacker needs to supply a malicious x509 certificate to either a server or a client application using this library.