CVE-2026-121994

high

Description

A stack buffer overflow in the GDB client's remote protocol handler allows an attacker-controlled debug target to execute arbitrary code in the GDB process. The vulnerability exists in fetch_register_using_p, which decodes a stub's register reply into an alloca-sized buffer without bounding writes by the register width.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-117571

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2565676

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-121994

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-11-05

Updated: 2026-11-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Severity: Critical

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00481