CVE-2026-121997

high

Description

A heap buffer overflow in gdbserver's QTDPsrc packet handler allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to achieve native code execution in the gdbserver process. The vulnerability results from a mismatch between a packet's declared source length and the actual data length, causing hex2bin to write beyond the allocated heap buffer.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-117574

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2565679

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-121997

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-11-05

Updated: 2026-11-06

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.6

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

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.0071