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CVE-2026-71972: U-Boot through 2026.10-rc5 Out-of-Bounds Write in BMP RLE8 Decoder

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-29 · updated 2026-09-30
• Weakness: CWE-787

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.

Affected products

• u-boot: through 2026.10-rc5

References

• https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot
• https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/blob/v2026.10-rc5/drivers/video/video_bmp.c#L126
• https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/5201e83342d64c2f438ea35158575f28225e752e
• https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/u-boot-through-2026.10-rc5-out-of-bounds-write-in-bmp-rle8-decoder

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