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Critical · 9.1 CVE-2026-49840 EUVD-2026-35471

FreeSWITCH: Pre-authentication heap buffer overflow in libesl `Content-Length` parsing

Published Jun 9, 2026 · Updated Jun 9, 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 version 1.11.1, esl_recv_event() parses Content-Length with atol() and passes the result straight to malloc(len + 1) with no sign or magnitude check. A malicious or man-in-the-middle ESL peer can send a frame with a negative Content-Length to corrupt the heap of, or crash, any process linked against libesl, before the client has authenticated to that peer. This issue has been patched in version 1.11.1.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
signalwire freeswitch < 1.11.1 —

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