Bug 2541438 (CVE-2026-80431) - CVE-2026-80431 kitty: out-of-bounds write in the kitty text sizing protocol allows termination of the terminal process
Summary: CVE-2026-80431 kitty: out-of-bounds write in the kitty text sizing protocol a...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-80431
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Depends On: 2542463
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Reported: 2026-09-25 13:48 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-28 12:58 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 13:48:46 UTC
Out-of-bounds Write in the natural width branch of the text sizing protocol in kitty from 0.40.0 before 0.49.0 allows a program writing to the terminal to write past the end of a fixed-size buffer, because screen_handle_multicell_command() in kitty/screen.c appends each codepoint of a grapheme cluster with lc.chars[lc.count++] = ch without any capacity check, while lc is declared by the RAII_ListOfChars macro as a four-element char_type array in the function's stack frame, so an OSC 66 escape code whose payload carries a grapheme cluster longer than four codepoints writes beyond that buffer, one 32-bit value per additional codepoint, in the order the codepoints appear. Where the cluster is preceded in the same payload by a sequence that causes an intermediate flush, the buffer is first migrated to the heap by ensure_space_for_chars() and the write occurs past the heap allocation instead. This results in termination of the kitty process and therefore of all its windows, tabs and child processes.


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