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CVE-2026-85509

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-09-04 · updated 2026-09-08
• Weakness: CWE-121

Description

FreeIPMI before 1.6.19 has a stack-based buffer overflow in _read_fru_data in libfreeipmi/fru/ipmi-fru.c when a BMC returns more bytes than requested.

Affected products

• FreeIPMI: before 1.6.19 — fixed in 1.6.19

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: FreeIPMI 1.6.19. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/freeipmi/freeipmi-1.6.19.tar.gz
• https://www.gnu.org/software/freeipmi/
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/08/28/5

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