High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Oct 1, 2026· Updated Oct 1, 2026
CVE-2026-79896
CVE-2026-79896
Description
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.
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