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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-48741 EUVD-2026-102908

libIEC61850: Remote NULL dereference in MMS Read alternate-access sub-array path leads to server-side DoS

Published Oct 16, 2026 · Updated Oct 21, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

libIEC61850 is an open-source implementation of IEC 61850 client and server protocols including MMS, GOOSE, Sampled Values, and R-Session. Prior to 1.6.2, alternateArrayAccess in src/mms/iso_mms/server/mms_read_service.c does not validate an alternate-access sub-array range when numberOfElements is greater than zero. An out-of-range MmsValue_getElement call returns NULL, and the sub-array branch passes that value to MmsValue_isDeletable, causing a NULL pointer dereference. A remote MMS Read request can therefore crash servers whose data models contain arrays, while the single-element error path handles the same invalid index safely. This issue is fixed in version 1.6.2.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
mz-automation libiec61850 < 1.6.2 —

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