{"answers":{"affected":"","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-88842 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Apply the vendor's patch.","what":"CVE-2026-88842 is a low-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Red Hat Hardened Images, published on 14 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2026-88842 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2026-88842 is a low-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Red Hat Hardened Images, published on 14 Oct 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-88842 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: Red Hat Hardened Images. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-88842/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-88842/index.md)","id":"CVE-2026-88842","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-88842/index.md","name":"CVE-2026-88842","record":{"aliases":["AZL-109773","DEBIAN-CVE-2026-88842","GHSA-9p9q-94fg-r728","UBUNTU-CVE-2026-88842"],"analysis":{"component_type":"operating_system","fix_type":"patch","impacts":["data_modify"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"BusyBox dpkg utility","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A stale pointer in BusyBox dpkg causes out-of-bounds reads and status file corruption when removing multiple packages, potentially leading to data integrity issues.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[],"cvss":{"score":3.3,"severity":"low","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-125","name":"Out-of-bounds Read"}],"description":"A flaw was found in BusyBox dpkg. The write_status_file() function does not reset a field cursor between package stanzas. When two packages are removed in a single invocation and the first stanza is larger than the second, the second package stanza can be dropped from the status file, causing limited data corruption.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Busybox: busybox: dpkg stale field_start pointer causes out-of-bounds read and status file corruption","id":"CVE-2026-88842","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2026"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"MasterStudy LMS 3.5.29 - \u003c 3.7.50 - Contributor+ LFI via Elementor Courses Categories Widget","id":"CVE-2026-88843"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Busybox: busybox: tls ssl_server reads one byte out of bounds when parsing truncated clienthello","id":"CVE-2026-88840"},"products":["Red Hat Hardened Images"],"published":"2026-10-14","related":[],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":"no","exploitation":"none","technical_impact":"partial"},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2026-10-15","vendors":["Red Hat"]},"summary":"A stale pointer in BusyBox dpkg causes out-of-bounds reads and status file corruption when removing multiple packages, potentially leading to data integrity issues.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-88842/"}