CVE-2026-126831
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CVE-2026-126831 is a medium-severity vulnerability rated 5.5/10 on the CVSS scale. A flaw was found in cpio. A local user can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by triggering a stack-based buffer overflow when creating archives in tar or ustar formats. EPSS estimates a 0.10% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Description
A flaw was found in cpio. A local user can cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by triggering a stack-based buffer overflow when creating archives in tar or ustar formats. When archiving files owned by users or groups with names exceeding 32 characters, cpio copies these names into fixed-size memory without verifying their length. This unbounded copy corrupts stack memory and causes the application to crash.
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Affected Software
Source: CNA advisory (CVE.org). NVD analysis pending.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | All versions |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Hardened Images | All versions |
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- Status
- Awaiting Analysis
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