vulnerability

Ubuntu: (CVE-2017-2800): wolfssl vulnerability

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
May 24, 2017
Added
Jun 26, 2025
Modified
Jul 28, 2025

Description

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.

Solution

no-fix-ubuntu-package
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