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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-116787 EUVD-2026-117741

FreeSWITCH: Pre-authentication process termination in the Event Socket via an unbounded Content-Length

Published Nov 5, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to 1.11.2, mod_event_socket used an unauthenticated Content-Length value directly as the allocation size for an Event Socket message body. Negative or extremely large values could overflow the terminator calculation or force an allocation failure through a helper that aborts the FreeSWITCH process. The header is parsed before the Event Socket password, so any host admitted by apply-inbound-acl can trigger termination with its first packet; the default loopback ACL limits ordinary installations to local clients. The outbound socket dialplan path is also affected when FreeSWITCH connects to a hostile application server, and process termination drops every active call until the service is restarted. This issue is fixed in version 1.11.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
signalwire freeswitch < 1.11.2 —

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