Bug 2529711 - CVE-2026-76014 busybox: BusyBox: Denial of Service via null pointer dereference in wget.c [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-76014 busybox: BusyBox: Denial of Service via null pointer dereferen...
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Status: NEW
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Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: busybox
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Tom "spot" Callaway
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Blocks: CVE-2026-76014
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Reported: 2026-09-08 08:07 UTC by nlevinki
Modified: 2026-09-08 08:07 UTC (History)
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Description nlevinki 2026-09-08 08:07:18 UTC
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A vulnerability has been found in BusyBox up to 1.30.1. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file networking/wget.c of the component FEATURE_WGET_TIMEOUT Handler. Such manipulation of the argument -T leads to null pointer dereference. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The name of the patch is 83a40bf7a93c8ac093d33ab452222dd5b9eb57ff. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.


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