THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-43823 (HIGH 7.5) — When initializing an RSA public key from DER or PEM bytes throws an error, the EVP_PKEY* is double-freed: first in the catch block, then in the deinit. This can lead to a crash on future memory allocations. This double-free manifests when BoringSSL cannot decode the public key fr
[NVD] CVE-2026-43823 (HIGH 7.5) — When initializing an RSA public key from DER or PEM bytes throws an error, the EVP_PKEY* is double-freed: first in the catch block, then in the deinit. This can lead to a crash on future memory allocations. This double-free manifests when BoringSSL cannot decode the public key fr
CVE-2026-43823 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2026-07-23T15:17:05.613
When initializing an RSA public key from DER or PEM bytes throws an error, the EVP_PKEY* is double-freed: first in the catch block, then in the deinit. This can lead to a crash on future memory allocations. This double-free manifests when BoringSSL cannot decode the public key from the bytes provided. This vulnerability is addressed
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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-43823