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High · 7.8 CVE-2026-90954 EUVD-2026-100951GHSA-68qr-37mv-cwhv

Busybox: busybox: dpkg-deb extraction-root escape via per-ar-member deferred symlink flush

Published Oct 14, 2026 · Updated Nov 11, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in BusyBox's dpkg-deb archive extraction. The ar archive handler flushes deferred symlinks after each archive member, unlike the tar, cpio, and unzip handlers which flush once after the last member. A specially crafted .deb archive with two data.tar members can exploit this ordering: the first member declares a symlink pointing to an absolute path (e.g., '/'), which is deferred as unsafe but flushed after the first member. The second member declares a regular file whose path traverses the now-live symlink, resulting in a file being written outside the intended extraction directory. This could allow an attacker to write arbitrary files to arbitrary locations when a user extracts a crafted .deb package.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Hardened Images — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 busybox No fix yet —
Debian 13 busybox No fix yet —
Debian 12 busybox No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS busybox No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed busybox 1.38.0-4.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:12376-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 busybox No fix yet —

Advisories 2

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