CVE-2026-71972

U-Boot versions through 2026.10-rc5 are affected by an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the video_display_rle8_bitmap function located in drivers/video/video_bmp.c. An attacker can exploit this by providing a crafted RLE8-compressed BMP image , which can lead to memory corruption adjacent to ...

CVE-2026-71972 U-Boot through 2026.10-rc5 Out-of-Bounds Write in BMP RLE8 Decoder

U-Boot through 2026.10-rc5 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the videodisplayrle8bitmap function in drivers/video/videobmp.c. Attackers can supply a crafted RLE8-compressed BMP image to corrupt memory adjacent to the framebuffer and crash the bootloader...