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High · 8.7 CVE-2025-34457 EUVD-2025-204760GHSA-28g2-hxcm-j3q2

wb2osz/direwolf <= 1.8.1 Stack-based Buffer Overflow DoS

Published Dec 22, 2025 · Updated Oct 29, 2026 · Assigned by VulnCheck

Description

wb2osz/direwolf (Dire Wolf) versions up to and including 1.8.1, prior to commit 694c954, contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the function kiss_rec_byte() located in src/kiss_frame.c. When processing crafted KISS frames that reach the maximum allowed frame length (MAX_KISS_LEN), the function appends a terminating FEND byte without reserving sufficient space in the stack buffer. This results in an out-of-bounds write followed by an out-of-bounds read during the subsequent call to kiss_unwrap(), leading to stack memory corruption or application crashes. This vulnerability may allow remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial-of-service condition.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
wb2osz Dire Wolf ≤ 1.8.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 direwolf 1.8.1+dfsg-2 —
Debian 13 direwolf 1.7+dfsg-2+deb13u1 —
Debian 12 direwolf No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 direwolf No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS direwolf No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 direwolf No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS direwolf No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS direwolf No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS direwolf No fix yet —
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS direwolf No fix yet —
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS direwolf No fix yet —

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