CVE-2026-88832 (GCVE-0-2026-88832)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-23 17:05
Modified
2026-09-25 22:12
Severity ?
VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Summary
BusyBox romfs volume ID parsing uses unbounded strlen on attacker-controlled metadata, causing a heap buffer overflow when processing crafted filesystem images.
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Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Hardened Images |
Unaffected: 1.37.0-9.1.hum1 < * cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 |
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