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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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.
Title Apache Qpid Proton C: Verifying non compliant TLS wildcard cert can cause stack buffer overflow read
Weaknesses CWE-125
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2026-10-29T11:09:37.028Z

Reserved: 2026-10-23T21:59:47.705Z

Link: CVE-2026-115942

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2026-10-29T11:17:30.837

Modified: 2026-10-29T15:43:33.310

Link: CVE-2026-115942

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Updated: 2026-10-29T12:29:10Z

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