Summary
The Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) is typically used only for booting diskless workstations. The tftp packages include the tftp and tftp-server subpackages. The tftp subpackage provides the user interface for TFTP and the tftp-server subpackage provides the server. This allows users to transfer files to and from a remote machine.
Security Fix(es):
* tftp: tftp-hpa: Denial of Service due to out-of-bounds read/write in remap engine (CVE-2026-85234)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| AlmaLinux · 9 | tftp | 5.2-40.el9_8.1 |
| AlmaLinux · 9 | tftp-server | 5.2-40.el9_8.1 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.5
Tftp: tftp-hpa: denial of service due to out-of-bounds read/write in remap engine
A flaw was found in tftp-hpa. When the `in.tftpd` remap engine processes an inverse remap rule that also aborts with a non-empty custom error message, it can pass invalid match offsets to the `genmatchstring()` function. This leads to out-of-bounds read/write…