Bug 2508370 (CVE-2026-56390) - CVE-2026-56390 bison: GNU Bison: Arbitrary file overwrite via grammar-defined output paths
Summary: CVE-2026-56390 bison: GNU Bison: Arbitrary file overwrite via grammar-defined...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-56390
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2509235
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Reported: 2026-07-29 11:01 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-07-30 10:24 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-07-29 11:01:33 UTC
GNU Bison improperly handles grammar‑defined output paths. Grammar directives such as %output and %header allow specifying file paths, which are accepted without restriction and override caller‑supplied output options. 
When processing attacker-supplied grammar, this behavior allows directing generated files to arbitrary writable locations on the filesystem, potentially overwriting existing files accessible to the Bison process.

Maintainers of this project were notified about this vulnerability, and fixed the issue in commit 8d101c19d4d9aaedf83a448c925513742d4efcf0. However, they did not provide vulnerable version range. Version 3.8.2 was tested and confirmed as vulnerable, other versions were not tested but might also be vulnerable.


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