DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47917

Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-47917
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47917.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47917
Upstream
Downstream
Published
2025-07-20T19:15:23.847Z
Modified
2026-03-11T07:38:03.597049Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Mbed TLS before 3.6.4 allows a use-after-free in certain situations of applications that are developed in accordance with the documentation. The function mbedtlsx509stringtonames() takes a head argument that is documented as an output argument. The documentation does not suggest that the function will free that pointer; however, the function does call mbedtlsasn1freenameddatalist() on that argument, which performs a deep free(). As a result, application code that uses this function (relying only on documented behavior) is likely to still hold pointers to the memory blocks that were freed, resulting in a high risk of use-after-free or double-free. In particular, the two sample programs x509/certwrite and x509/cert_req are affected (use-after-free if the san string contains more than one DN).

References

Affected packages

Debian:11 / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mbedtls?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.16.9-0.1+deb11u3

Affected versions

2.*
2.16.9-0.1
2.16.9-0.1+deb11u1
2.16.9-0.1+deb11u2

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47917.json"

Debian:12 / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mbedtls?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

2.*
2.28.3-1
2.28.4-1
2.28.5-1
2.28.6-1
2.28.7-1
2.28.7-1.1~exp1
2.28.7-1.1
2.28.8-1
3.*
3.6.0-1
3.6.0-2
3.6.0-3
3.6.2-1
3.6.2-2
3.6.2-3
3.6.3-1
3.6.4-1
3.6.4-2
3.6.5-0.1~deb13u1
3.6.5-0.1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47917.json"

Debian:13 / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mbedtls?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6.4-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47917.json"

Debian:14 / mbedtls

Package

Name
mbedtls
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/mbedtls?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
3.6.4-1

Ecosystem specific

{
    "urgency": "not yet assigned"
}

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2025-47917.json"