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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Avoid processing untrusted filesystem images with BusyBox blkid or findfs. Use the util-linux versions of these utilities instead (default on Fedora).
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:15:00 +0000
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| Description | BusyBox romfs volume ID parsing uses unbounded strlen on attacker-controlled metadata, causing a heap buffer overflow when processing crafted filesystem images. | |
| Title | Busybox: busybox: romfs volume id parsing performs unbounded memcpy into fixed-size label buffer, causing heap overflow | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat hummingbird |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 | |
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Redhat
Redhat hummingbird |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-23T17:41:09.077Z
Reserved: 2026-09-10T09:42:04.559Z
Link: CVE-2026-88832
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-23T17:17:18.573
Modified: 2026-09-23T17:17:18.573
Link: CVE-2026-88832
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