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Vulnerability Spotlight: WolfSSL library X.509 Certificate Text Parsing Code Execution Vulnerability

Talos is disclosing TALOS-2017-0293 / CVE 2017-2800, a code execution vulnerability in WolfSSL. WolfSSL is a lightweight SSL/TLS library targeted specifically for embedded and RTOS environments. A specially crafted x.509 certificate can cause a single out-of-bounds overwrite that could result in certificate validation issues, denial of service, or remote code execution. To trigger this vulnerability, the adversary needs to supply a malicious certificate to either the server or client application that is making use of this library.”]

Source: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/2017/05/wolfssl-x509-vuln.html

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