CVE-2017-2784

An exploitable free of a stack pointer vulnerability exists in the x509 certificate parsing code of ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.19, 2.x before 2.1.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.2. A specially crafted x509 certificate, when parsed by mbed TLS library, can cause an invalid free of a stack pointer leading to a p...

high 8.1 CVSS 3.0
Published: Apr 20, 2017
Modified: Jun 5, 2026
Vendor: Trustedfirmware
Product: Mbed Tls
Versions: 2.0.0,2.1.0,2.1.1,2.1.2,2.1.3,2.1.4,2.1.5,2.1.6,2.4.0

Description

An exploitable free of a stack pointer vulnerability exists in the x509 certificate parsing code of ARM mbed TLS before 1.3.19, 2.x before 2.1.7, and 2.4.x before 2.4.2. A specially crafted x509 certificate, when parsed by mbed TLS library, can cause an invalid free of a stack pointer leading to a potential remote code execution. In order to exploit this vulnerability, an attacker can act as either a client or a server on a network to deliver malicious x509 certificates to vulnerable applications.

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