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High · 8.7 CVE-2026-58227 EUVD-2026-49315

TLS/DTLS denial of service via unbounded recursion on cross-signed peer certificate chain

Published Jul 27, 2026 · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Assigned by EEF

Description

The Erlang/OTP ssl application does not detect cycles when reconstructing an incomplete peer certificate chain during a TLS or DTLS handshake. In ssl_certificate:handle_incomplete_chain/5, the received chain is passed to ssl_certificate:build_certificate_chain/5, which walks issuer relationships via ssl_certificate:do_certificate_chain/7 with no cycle detection and no depth limit. When the peer supplies two mutually cross-signed certificates in unordered form (A issues B, B issues A), the issuer lookup alternates between the two certificates and the pair of functions recurses indefinitely, growing the call stack and chain accumulator without bound.

An unauthenticated remote attacker can send a crafted certificate chain in a TLS or DTLS Certificate handshake message to exhaust available memory and crash the BEAM node. Only a TCP connection and a partial handshake are required; no authentication or completed handshake is needed, and both TLS/DTLS servers and clients are affected when processing peer certificate messages.

This issue affects OTP from OTP 23.2 before OTP 27.3.4.15, OTP 28.5.0.4, and OTP 29.0.4, corresponding to ssl from 10.2 before 11.2.12.11, 11.6.0.4, and 11.7.4.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Erlang OTP 23.2, 10.2 —

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 erlang 1:29.0.4+dfsg-1 —
Debian 13 erlang 1:27.3.4.1+dfsg-1+deb13u3 —
Debian 12 erlang No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS erlang 1:27.3.4.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1 USN-8827-1
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS erlang 1:25.3.2.8+dfsg-1ubuntu4.7 USN-8827-1
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS erlang 1:24.2.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.7 USN-8827-1
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS erlang 1:22.2.7+dfsg-1ubuntu0.5+esm2 USN-8827-1
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS erlang 1:20.2.2+dfsg-1ubuntu2+esm3 USN-8827-1
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS erlang 1:18.3-dfsg-1ubuntu3.1+esm3 USN-8827-1
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS erlang 1:16.b.3-dfsg-1ubuntu2.2+esm2 USN-8827-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
SLES 15 SP7 erlang26 26.2.1-150300.7.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3579-1
SLES 15 SP6 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
SLES 15 SP6 erlang26 26.2.1-150300.7.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3579-1
SLES 15 SP5 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
SLES 15 SP4 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP6 erlang26 26.2.1-150300.7.28.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3579-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP5 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
SLES for SAP 15 SP4 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
SLE HPC 15 SP5 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
SLE HPC 15 SP4 erlang 23.3.4.19-150300.3.39.1 SUSE-SU-2026:3645-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed erlang 28.5.0.4-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11559-1
openSUSE Tumbleweed erlang27 27.1.3-3.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11560-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 erlang 26.2.5.21-4 —

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