CVE-2026-79896

Fortra BoKS Manager contains an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in the custom TLS ClientHello parser used by boks_portmux. A remote unauthenticated attacker can submit a malformed ClientHello and terminate boks_portmux. Although the daemon is normally restarted automatically, repeated requests can sustain the service interruption.

• CWE-125

• https://www.fortra.com/security/advisories/product-security/fi-2026-016

Published

Oct 1, 2026

Last Modified

Oct 1, 2026

Status

Awaiting Analysis

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