CVE-2026-85509 PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre
Reserved: 04.09.2026 Published: 04.09.2026 Updated: 04.09.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS Score: 9.8

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	High
Privileges Required	None	Integrity Impact	High
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	FreeIPMI
Product	FreeIPMI
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 0 to 1.6.19 (excl.)

References

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

Problem Types

CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow CWE