CVE-2026-88835: Red Hat Hardened Images

Medium severity, CVSS 6.1. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

BusyBox dpkg read_package_field() steps past a NUL terminator on malformed .deb packages, causing an out-of-bounds heap read.

Affected products

• Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images: before 1.37.0-9.1.hum1 (fixed in 1.37.0-9.1.hum1)

Published 2026-09-23. Last modified 2026-09-25.