CVE record · CVE-2026-88842

Busybox: busybox: dpkg stale field_start pointer causes out-of-bounds read and status file corruption

CVSS 3.3 LowEPSS 0.0016 · 4th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 14 Oct 2026, 10:02 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Hardened Images Package name: busybox-main https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1.37.0-9.4.hum1 to before * rpm Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2026-88842
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-125
Tags: Red Hat Hardened Images
Memory corruption
Published: 14 Oct 2026
Updated: 15 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
3.3	Low	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0016, the 4th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 14 Oct 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:81391 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-88842 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531355 issue-trackingredhat

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