{"id":"CVE-2026-71972","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-71972","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T23:57:30.286Z","title":"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.","description":"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.","published":"2026-09-29T22:18:22.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-30T16:40:51.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"disclosure@vulncheck.com","cvss":{"version":"4.0","score":6,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:4.0/AV:A/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/M"},"cwe":["CWE-787"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00221,"percentile":0.12568,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-30","score":0.00221,"percentile":0.11458}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.22%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-29T22:18:22.000Z","detail":{"score":"6.0","severity":"MEDIUM","publishedAt":"2026-09-29T22:18:21.900Z"},"summary":"New CVE, medium severity (CVSS 6.0)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/v2026.10-rc5/drivers/video/video_bmp.c#L126","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/5201e83342d64c2f438ea35158575f28225e752e","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"},{"url":"https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/u-boot-through-2026.10-rc5-out-of-bounds-write-in-bmp-rle8-decoder","source":"disclosure@vulncheck.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71972","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}