CVE-2026-49423 PUBLISHED

Remote DOS via uninitialized memory access in KTLS receive

Assigner: freebsd
Reserved: 29.05.2026 Published: 19.08.2026 Updated: 19.08.2026

When building the iovec array for a received TLS 1.2 CBC record, ktls_ocf_tls_cbc_decrypt() incremented the iovec index for every mbuf in the chain, including mbufs that were skipped because they contained only TLS header bytes. This left uninitialized entries in the iovec array. The iovec array was allocated without zeroing.

A remote TLS peer can cause the kernel to read from uninitialized iovec entries during HMAC computation, resulting in a kernel panic. The peer must be able to control TCP segmentation such that the first mbuf of a CBC record contains only the 5-byte TLS record header.

Product Status

Vendor FreeBSD
Product FreeBSD
Versions Default: unknown
  • affected from 15.1-RELEASE to p1 (excl.)
  • affected from 15.0-RELEASE to p11 (excl.)
  • affected from 14.4-RELEASE to p7 (excl.)
  • affected from 14.3-RELEASE to p16 (excl.)

Credits

  • Yuxiang Yang, Yizhou Zhao, Ao Wang, Xuewei Feng, Qi Li, and Ke Xu from Tsinghua University using GLM-5.1 from Z.ai finder

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-908: Use of Uninitialized Resource CWE