Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 12, 2026· Updated Nov 12, 2026
CVE-2026-126831
CVE-2026-126831
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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