A flaw was found in OpenSCAP. A heap-based buffer overflow can occur when processing a specially crafted Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) document using the sds-compose option. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory, resulting in an application crash and a Denial of Service (DoS).
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| Description | A flaw was found in OpenSCAP. A heap-based buffer overflow can occur when processing a specially crafted Extensible Configuration Checklist Description Format (XCCDF) document using the sds-compose option. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to corrupt memory, resulting in an application crash and a Denial of Service (DoS). | |
| Title | Openscap: one-byte heap buffer overflow in sds-compose may lead to denial-of-service | |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1 cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:6 cpe:/o:redhat:rhel_els:7 |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-11-09T20:33:16.401Z
Reserved: 2026-11-04T16:34:16.396Z
Link: CVE-2026-122056
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