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DEBIAN-CVE-2021-44718

wolfSSL through 5.0.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and infinite loop in the client component by sending crafted traffic from a Mach...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

wolfSSL through 5.0.0 allows an attacker to cause a denial of service and infinite loop in the client component by sending crafted traffic from a Machine-in-the-Middle (MITM) position. The root cause is that the client module accepts TLS messages that normally are only sent to TLS servers.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 wolfssl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.1.1-1"}]}]

Debian:13 wolfssl

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"5.1.1-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org