CVE-2025-34457

wb2osz/direwolf <= 1.8.1 Stack-based Buffer Overflow DoS

State
Published
Severity
8.7 High
Published
Dec 22, 2025
Updated
Oct 29, 2026
Reserved
Apr 15, 2025

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Description

wb2osz/direwolf (Dire Wolf) versions up to and including 1.8.1, prior to commit 694c954, contain a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the function kiss_rec_byte() located in src/kiss_frame.c. When processing crafted KISS frames that reach the maximum allowed frame length (MAX_KISS_LEN), the function appends a terminating FEND byte without reserving sufficient space in the stack buffer. This results in an out-of-bounds write followed by an out-of-bounds read during the subsequent call to kiss_unwrap(), leading to stack memory corruption or application crashes. This vulnerability may allow remote unauthenticated attackers to trigger a denial-of-service condition.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.08.7 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NVulnCheck

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Dire Wolfwb2osz
  • 1.8.1 and earlierAffected
  • 694c95485b21c1c22bc4682703771dec4d7a374bNot affected

References

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