{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38153","details":"An issue was discovered in wolfSSL before 5.5.0 (when --enable-session-ticket is used); however, only version 5.3.0 is exploitable. Man-in-the-middle attackers or a malicious server can crash TLS 1.2 clients during a handshake. If an attacker injects a large ticket (more than 256 bytes) into a NewSessionTicket message in a TLS 1.2 handshake, and the client has a non-empty session cache, the session cache frees a pointer that points to unallocated memory, causing the client to crash with a \"free(): invalid pointer\" message. NOTE: It is likely that this is also exploitable during TLS 1.3 handshakes between a client and a malicious server. With TLS 1.3, it is not possible to exploit this as a man-in-the-middle.","modified":"2026-05-20T16:08:12.753572376Z","published":"2022-08-31T18:15:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2022-38153"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-38153"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/pull/5476"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/trailofbits/tlspuffin"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.wolfssl.com/docs/security-vulnerabilities/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl/releases"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-38153"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"wolfssl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["3.4.8+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libcyassl5","binary_version":"3.4.8+dfsg-1"},{"binary_name":"libwolfssl0","binary_version":"3.4.8+dfsg-1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38153.json"}},{"package":{"name":"wolfssl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["3.10.2+dfsg-2","3.12.0+dfsg-1","3.12.2+dfsg-1","3.13.0+dfsg-1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"3.13.0+dfsg-1","binary_name":"libwolfssl15"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38153.json"}},{"package":{"name":"wolfssl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:20.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=focal"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["4.1.0+dfsg-2","4.2.0+dfsg-1","4.2.0+dfsg-2","4.2.0+dfsg-3","4.3.0+dfsg-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"4.3.0+dfsg-2","binary_name":"libwolfssl24"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38153.json"}},{"package":{"name":"wolfssl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:22.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=jammy"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["4.6.0-3","5.0.0-1","5.1.1-1","5.2.0-1","5.2.0-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libwolfssl32","binary_version":"5.2.0-2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38153.json"}},{"package":{"name":"wolfssl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:24.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=noble"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["5.5.4-2","5.5.4-2.1","5.6.4-2","5.6.6-1.2","5.6.6-1.3","5.6.6-1.3build1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"5.6.6-1.3build1","binary_name":"libwolfssl42t64"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38153.json"}},{"package":{"name":"wolfssl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:25.10","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=questing"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["5.7.2-0.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_version":"5.7.2-0.1","binary_name":"libwolfssl42t64"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38153.json"}},{"package":{"name":"wolfssl","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:26.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/wolfssl?arch=source&distro=resolute"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["5.7.2-0.1","5.8.2-1.2","5.8.4-1","5.9.1-0.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"libwolfssl44","binary_version":"5.9.1-0.1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2022/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-38153.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}