12 May, 2026

New SonicWall SonicOS flaw allows hackers to crash firewalls

American cybersecurity company SonicWall urged customers today to patch a high-severity SonicOS SSLVPN security flaw that can allow attackers to crash vulnerable firewalls. Tracked as CVE-2025-40601, this denial-of-service vulnerability is caused by a stack-based buffer overflow impacting Gen8 and Gen7 (hardware and virtual) firewalls. “A Stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability in the SonicOS SSLVPN service allows a […]

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