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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2026-79896

Fortra BoKS Manager boks_portmux TLS ClientHello out-of-bounds read vulnerability

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
Fortra

Description

Fortra BoKS Manager contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the custom TLS ClientHello parser used by boks_portmux. A remote unauthenticated attacker can submit a malformed ClientHello and terminate boks_portmux. Although the daemon is normally restarted automatically, repeated requests can sustain the service interruption.

Affected products

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

Fortra BoKS Manager

Default version status: unknown

  • 8.1.0.0 to ≤ 8.1.0.23affected
  • 9.0.0.0 to ≤ 9.0.0.6affected

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