CVE-2026-49423CWE-908

CVE-2026-49423

Low · published August 19, 2026

CVSS v3.1
3.3
EPSS
0%
Percentile
2.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
3.3 · LOW
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CVSS v4.0
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EPSS
0.00138 · 2.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-908 · Use of Uninitialized Resource
Published
2026-08-19T11:16Z
Affected products (38)
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References (1)
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 19 AUG 07:01Z
    Remote DOS via uninitialized memory access in KTLS receive
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