CVE-2026-95520

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.

CVSS 3.1

7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

EPSS

0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-787

Published

2026-09-29

Modified

2026-09-29

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-95520
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2537809

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