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CVE-2026-115942unknown

Apache Qpid Proton C: Verifying non compliant TLS wildcard cert can cause stack buffer overflow read

Impact

Apache Qpid Proton C versions through 0.40.0 are affected by a stack buffer overflow read when verifying non-compliant TLS wildcard certificates. The issue is caused by a misconfigured wildcard TLS certificate. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.41.1.

Summarized by @cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast. Verify details against the original sources.

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Apache Qpid Proton C

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Other versions: unaffected

Original source description

A misconfigured wildcard TLS certificate causes a stack read overflow.

This issue does not affect any wildcard certificate issued to the RFC9525 standard - the fix only accepts certificates that comply to this standard.

This issue affects Apache Qpid Proton C: through 0.40.0.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 0.41.1, which fixes the issue.

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2026-10-29
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2026-10-29

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lists.apache.org/thread.html/5z8x4c1939rxs5hod7q7gvgdmjd7p7pt
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