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CVE-2026-71972 Details

Description

U-Boot through 2026.10-rc5 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the video_display_rle8_bitmap function in drivers/video/video_bmp.c. Attackers can supply a crafted RLE8-compressed BMP image to corrupt memory adjacent to the framebuffer and crash the bootloader.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

CNA: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.9 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot [email protected]
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/v2026.10-rc5/drivers/video/video_bmp.c#L126 [email protected]
https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/5201e83342d64c2f438ea35158575f28225e752e [email protected]
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/u-boot-through-2026.10-rc5-out-of-bounds-write-in-bmp-rle8-decoder [email protected]

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-787Out-of-bounds Write[email protected]

Affected Products

No affected product data is available for this CVE.

Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2026-71972
NVD Published Date:
Sep 29, 2026
NVD Last Modified:
Sep 30, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2026-71972 Details - Not Deferred