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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-101302 EUVD-2026-101870

Remote DoS via receive-side kernel TLS

Published Oct 15, 2026 · Updated Oct 15, 2026 · Assigned by freebsd

Description

TLS 1.3 embeds the actual record type as the last non-zero byte of the decrypted payload, optionally followed by zero padding. The code which searches for the inner record type had an off-by-one bug which could be triggered by an invalid frame, leading to an underflow followed by an unconditional NULL pointer dereference, causing a kernel panic.

A remote TLS 1.3 peer can send a specially crafted record to trigger a kernel panic, resulting in a Denial of Service (DoS).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
FreeBSD FreeBSD 15.1-RELEASE – < p4, 15.0-RELEASE – < p14, 14.5-RELEASE – < p1, 14.4-RELEASE – < p10 p4

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