vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2025-47917: Use After Free
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:C) | Jul 20, 2025 | Aug 8, 2025 | Dec 22, 2025 |
Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:C/A:C)
Published
Jul 20, 2025
Added
Aug 8, 2025
Modified
Dec 22, 2025
Description
Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 allows a use-after-free in certain situations of applications that are developed in accordance with the documentation. The function mbedtls_x509_string_to_names() takes a head argument that is documented as an output argument. The documentation does not suggest that the function will free that pointer; however, the function does call mbedtls_asn1_free_named_data_list() on that argument, which performs a deep free(). As a result, application code that uses this function (relying only on documented behavior) is likely to still hold pointers to the memory blocks that were freed, resulting in a high risk of use-after-free or double-free. In particular, the two sample programs x509/cert_write and x509/cert_req are affected (use-after-free if the san string contains more than one DN).
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-mbedtls
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