CVE-2026-71972: U-Boot

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

U-Boot through 2026.10-rc5 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the video_display_rle8_bitmap function in drivers/video/video_bmp.c. Attackers can supply a crafted RLE8-compressed BMP image to corrupt memory adjacent to the framebuffer and crash the bootloader.

Affected products

• U-Boot U-Boot: up to and including 2026.10-rc5

Published 2026-09-29. Last modified 2026-09-30.