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.

  • Published Sep 29, 2026
  • CVSS 7.1 high
  • 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

Affected software

CVE-2026-95520 at the National Vulnerability Database