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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-BUSYBOX-20071298
  • published24 Sept 2026
  • disclosed23 Sept 2026

Introduced: 23 Sep 2026

NewCVE-2026-88840  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream busybox package and not the busybox package as distributed by RHEL.

BusyBox TLS get_client_hello() reads past the end of the input buffer when parsing a truncated ClientHello message.