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Red HatCVE-2026-88830

Red Hat Hardened Images: buffer overflow

High7.5CVE-2026-88830 · Published Sep 23, 2026

A unit confusion in BusyBox TLS Montgomery reduction buffer allocation causes a pre-authentication heap buffer overflow when processing a crafted ClientKeyExchange message.

Red Hat advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Red Hat Hardened Images
Product
all versionsNo fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-131

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