Bug 2531354 (CVE-2026-88840) - CVE-2026-88840 busybox: busybox: TLS ssl_server reads one byte out of bounds when parsing truncated ClientHello
Summary: CVE-2026-88840 busybox: busybox: TLS ssl_server reads one byte out of bounds ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-88840
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Product Security
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Reported: 2026-09-10 09:49 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-23 16:44 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-10 09:49:05 UTC
A vulnerability exists in the BusyBox TLS server implementation in networking/tls.c. The get_client_hello() function reads p[0] (the compression-methods length byte) after consuming the cipher suite list without verifying that len > 0. A crafted ClientHello that ends immediately after the cipher suite list triggers a 1-byte out-of-bounds heap read.

This is a pre-authentication vulnerability. The one-byte OOB read can potentially leak a single byte of adjacent heap memory or cause a crash in memory-safety-hardened builds.


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