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CVE-2026-49840

critical · 9.1

FreeSWITCH is a Software Defined Telecom Stack enabling the digital transformation from proprietary telecom switches to a software implementation that runs on any commodity hardware. Prior to version 1.11.1, esl_recv_event() parses Content-Length with atol() and passes the result straight to malloc(len + 1) with no sign or magnitude check. A malicious or man-in-the-middle ESL peer can send a frame with a negative Content-Length to corrupt the heap of, or crash, any process linked against libesl, before the client has authenticated to that peer. This issue has been patched in version 1.11.1.

9.1
CVSS
0.3%
EPSS (exploit prob.)
24th
EPSS percentile
2026-06-09
Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-20CWE-122CWE-195CWE-787

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
freeswitchfreeswitch< 1.11.1

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References

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