A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in wolfSSL up to 3.10.1. Affected by this issue is an unknown function of the component DH Parameter Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory corruption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-119. The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

wolfSSL before 3.10.2 has an out-of-bounds memory access with loading crafted DH parameters, aka a buffer overflow triggered by a malformed temporary DH file.

The bug was discovered 05/09/2017. The weakness was disclosed 05/09/2017 (GitHub Repository). The advisory is available at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2017-8854 since 05/09/2017. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available.

Upgrading to version 3.10.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

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• 3.10.0
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• open-source

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