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GHSA-H5R3-V75J-GX8V

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-10-29 12:30 – Updated: 2026-10-29 12:30

Details

A misconfigured wildcard TLS certificate causes a stack read overflow.

This issue does not affect any wildcard certificate issued to the RFC9525 standard - the fix only accepts certificates that comply to this standard.

This issue affects Apache Qpid Proton C: through 0.40.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.41.1, which fixes the issue.

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CVE-2026-115942 (GCVE-0-2026-115942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-10-29 10:19 – Updated: 2026-10-29 11:09

Title

Apache Qpid Proton C: Verifying non compliant TLS wildcard cert can cause stack buffer overflow read

Summary

A misconfigured wildcard TLS certificate causes a stack read overflow. This issue does not affect any wildcard certificate issued to the RFC9525 standard - the fix only accepts certificates that comply to this standard. This issue affects Apache Qpid Proton C: through 0.40.0. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.41.1, which fixes the issue.

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

Assigner

apache CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1076 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/5z8x4c1939rx…	vendor-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/1…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Apache Software Foundation	Apache Qpid Proton C	Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.40.0 (semver)

Credits

zhangph@yandex.com

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