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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.8 High

CVE-2026-6679

DTLS 1.3 ACK serialization heap buffer overflow via integer truncation

Description

A heap buffer overflow could occur in the DTLS 1.3 ACK serialization path before the connecting peer is authenticated. The buffer overflow was due to an integer truncation when computing the length of the ACK record-number list, causing an undersized buffer to be allocated and then overrun. This affects builds using DTLS 1.3 and wolfSSL version 5.9.0 and earlier. A fix was added to the 5.9.1 release.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

wolfSSL wolfSSL

Default version status: unaffected

  • 5.4.0 to ≤ 5.9.0affected

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