CVE-2026-83742 (GCVE-0-2026-83742)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-07 02:41
Modified
2026-10-07 11:30
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
Summary
Unsigned integer underflow in wstrncat() in src/port.c in wolfSSL wolfSSH from v1.4.11 through v1.5.0 on non-Windows platforms allows an authenticated remote attacker to write one out-of-bounds null byte past the end of a stack buffer by sending a crafted SFTP path. wolfSSH_RealPath() in src/ssh.c appends each path component with a remaining-size bound (outSz - curSz) rather than the full destination size, so once the accumulated path reaches half the output buffer the size_t computation n - strlen(s1) - 1 wraps to near SIZE_MAX. The strncat() call is then effectively unbounded and copies the whole component; when that component exactly fills the remainder of the buffer, its terminating null is written one byte past the end. The caller's own length check keeps the copied data inside the buffer, so the overflow is limited to that single null byte, which may corrupt an adjacent stack value and crash the process. Applications that call the public wolfSSH_RealPath() with an output buffer smaller than the input path are additionally exposed to an unbounded copy, because the word32 expression outSz - segSz in that length check also wraps.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| wolfSSL Inc. | wolfSSH |
Version: 1.4.11 ≤ 1.5.0 |
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