MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-95520 (CVSS 7.1)
NVD · officialPublished Sep 29, 2026Risk 23/100
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in rpm. Parsing a symlink entry in an untrusted RPM package whose declared RPMTAG_LONGFILESIZES value is 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF causes an integer overflow in iterReadArchiveNext() that shrinks a buffer allocation to one byte, after which the payload's independently-controlled cpio filesize field is used to write attacker-controlled data past the end of that allocation. This is reachable via rpm2cpio, rpm2archive, and rpm -qlvp on an untrusted package.
Technical details
CVSS
7.1
AV:LocalAC:LowPR:NoneUI:RequiredC:NoneI:HighA:High
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