MinorCritical vulnerability
CVE-2026-124737 (CVSS 7.5)
NVD · officialPublished Nov 11, 2026Risk 23/100
A flaw was found in BusyBox. When the TFTP (Trivial File Transfer Protocol) client requests a custom small block size and receives a standard response, it falls back to the default block size without resizing the allocated memory buffer. A malicious TFTP server can exploit this issue by sending standard-sized network packets during a transfer, causing a heap buffer overflow. This flaw allows an attacker to achieve arbitrary code execution or cause a Denial of Service (DoS) by crashing the application.
Technical details
CVSS
7.5
AV:NetworkAC:HighPR:NoneUI:RequiredC:HighI:HighA:High
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