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Unauthenticated and Undersized DTLS 1.2 AEAD Record Causes DoS

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

Issue summary: An established DTLS 1.2 association using an AEAD cipher suite can be terminated by a single unauthenticated datagram whose encrypted fragment is shorter than the mandatory explicit IV and authentication tag overhead. Impact summary: An attacker who can send a datagram that is routed to an existing DTLS 1.2 association can tear that association down without knowing any key material. This is a Denial of Service limited to the targeted association. There is no memory safety or confidentiality impact. CWE: CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input Description: In TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 every record protected by an AEAD cipher suite carries an explicit IV followed by the ciphertext and an authentication tag. When decrypting such a record the record layer passed the record length to the cipher implementation before checking that the record was long enough to contain the explicit IV and the tag. For a record shorter than that overhead the cipher implementation rejected the impossible length, and the record layer treated this as an internal failure and raised a fatal internal_error alert instead of treating the record as one that failed authentication. In TLS 1.2 the same record causes a fatal internal_error alert instead of the expected bad_record_mac alert. Since any undecryptable record already terminates a TLS connection, this is a protocol conformance issue rather than a security issue in TLS. The fix validates the record length against the expli

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CVE-2026-75806

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-75806

OpenSSL

Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product

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  {
    "vendor": "OpenSSL",
    "product": "OpenSSL",
    "versions": [
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "4.0.0",
        "lessThan": "4.0.3",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.6.0",
        "lessThan": "3.6.5",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.5.0",
        "lessThan": "3.5.9",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.4.0",
        "lessThan": "3.4.8",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "3.0.0",
        "lessThan": "3.0.23",
        "versionType": "semver"
      },
      {
        "status": "affected",
        "version": "1.1.1",
        "lessThan": "1.1.1zj",
        "versionType": "custom"
      }
    ],
    "defaultStatus": "unaffected"
  }
]
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