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FreeBSD-SA-26:68.openssl Security Advisory

Type: patchSources: FreeBSD security

A DTLS retransmission can read beyond an allocated buffer, potentially disclosing heap memory to a peer or crashing the application. No workaround is available; applications that do not use DTLS are not affected.

Products
FreeBSD
Affected versions
All supported versions of FreeBSD
Fixed versions
14.4-RELEASE-p10, 14.5-RELEASE-p1, 14.5-STABLE, 15.0-RELEASE-p14, 15.1-RELEASE-p4, 15.1-STABLE
CVEs
CVE-2026-84782, CVE-2026-84783
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
31 Oct 2026, 21:28 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

FreeBSD-SA-26:68.openssl Security Advisory

official-freebsd-security · Original source

Published 29 Sept 2026, 00:00 UTC

A DTLS retransmission can read beyond an allocated buffer, potentially disclosing heap memory to a peer or crashing the application. No workaround is available; applications that do not use DTLS are not affected.

A DTLS handshake message write can be suspended part-way through when the underlying transport temporarily cannot accept more data. If the retransmission timer fired while such a write was suspended, the resent message reused the buffer and offset of the suspended write without resetting the offset. The resent message was read from that stale offset and could run past the end of the allocated buffer.

FreeBSD

Fixed versions: 15.1-STABLE, 15.1-RELEASE-p4, 15.0-RELEASE-p14, 14.5-STABLE, 14.5-RELEASE-p1, 14.4-RELEASE-p10

Prerequisites: applications that do not use DTLS are not affected

Complete source record
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    "summary": "A DTLS retransmission can read beyond an allocated buffer, potentially disclosing heap memory to a peer or crashing the application. No workaround is available; applications that do not use DTLS are not affected.",
    "evidence": "A DTLS handshake message write can be suspended part-way through when the underlying transport temporarily cannot accept more data. If the retransmission timer fired while such a write was suspended, the resent message reused the buffer and offset of the suspended write without resetting the offset. The resent message was read from that stale offset and could run past the end of the allocated buffer.",
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            "value": "15.1-STABLE",
            "evidence": "Corrected: 2026-09-29 15:56:25 UTC (stable/15, 15.1-STABLE)"
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            "value": "15.1-RELEASE-p4",
            "evidence": "2026-09-29 16:00:12 UTC (releng/15.1, 15.1-RELEASE-p4)"
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            "value": "15.0-RELEASE-p14",
            "evidence": "2026-09-29 15:59:21 UTC (releng/15.0, 15.0-RELEASE-p14)"
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          {
            "value": "14.5-STABLE",
            "evidence": "2026-09-29 15:56:42 UTC (stable/14, 14.5-STABLE)"
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            "evidence": "2026-09-29 16:09:12 UTC (releng/14.5, 14.5-RELEASE-p1)"
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            "evidence": "2026-09-29 15:57:36 UTC (releng/14.4, 14.4-RELEASE-p10)"
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    "severity": "unknown",
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        "value": "CVE-2026-84782",
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        "evidence": "The Moderate issue, CVE-2026-84783, affects only OpenSSL 4.0 and does not affect FreeBSD."
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