Bug 2510809 (CVE-2026-18743) - CVE-2026-18743 popt-devel: popt-static: Short realloc in poptConfigFileToString
Summary: CVE-2026-18743 popt-devel: popt-static: Short realloc in poptConfigFileToString
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-18743
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Depends On: 2511606
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Reported: 2026-08-03 21:16 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-01 00:49 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-08-03 21:16:18 UTC
Buffer growth maxargvlen*2 can under-allocate relative to accumulated argvlen, yielding small heap overflow (~11 bytes / ~9 attacker-chosen) on crafted config content.

Flow: Privileged or unprivileged host loads attacker-influenced popt config → poptConfigFileToString → realloc/strcat overflow → heap metadata corruption (reporter).

Earliest affected is `popt-1_11-release` tag in git. `poptConfigFileToString()` must be explicitly called in order for this to be reachable, which is not used by the internal source.

src/poptparse.c:191-224


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