Bug 2439050

Summary: CVE-2026-26158 busybox: BusyBox: Arbitrary file modification and privilege escalation via unvalidated tar archive entries [fedora-43]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component: busyboxAssignee: Tom "spot" Callaway <spotrh>
Status: NEW --- QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 43CC: admiller, davide, dvlasenk, epel-packagers-sig, spotrh, suraj.ghimire7
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2026-02-11 18:35:28 UTC
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