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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2026-59993 EUVD-2026-114509

Picotls has NULL pointer dereference during handshake, when running as a client

Published Oct 30, 2026 · Updated Nov 6, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Picotls is a TLS protocol library that allows users select different crypto backends based on their use case. In affected revisions through 44bc503, when picotls is used as a `client-side TLS stack`, a peer can send a `HelloRetryRequest` followed by a `spoofed Hello message` that causes a null-pointer dereference. This can terminate the consuming process, including a process performing other work, resulting in denial of service. This issue is fixed in commit a06ca41.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
h2o picotls < a06ca417a16f9126808bf5cabe6c5e6e0f16ecae —

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