Out-of-bounds Read Affecting wolfssl/wolfssl package, versions [,2.9.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Not Defined
EPSS
0.56% (78th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-WOLFSSLWOLFSSL-2369414
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Jan 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Jan 2020

CVE-2014-2898  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade wolfssl/wolfssl to version 2.9.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read wolfSSL CyaSSL before 2.9.4 allows remote attackers to have unspecified impact via multiple calls to the CyaSSL_read function which triggers an out-of-bounds read when an error occurs, related to not checking the return code and MAC verification failure.

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