CVE-2021-44718

NameCVE-2021-44718
DescriptionwolfSSL 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
wolfssl (PTS)bullseye4.6.0+p1-0+deb11u2fixed
bookworm5.5.4-2+deb12u1fixed
trixie5.6.6-1.2fixed
sid5.6.6-1.3fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
wolfsslsourcebullseye4.6.0+p1-0+deb11u1
wolfsslsource(unstable)5.1.1-1

Notes

https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/4629

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