5.5 Medium

CVE-2026-89088 Parted: parted: denial of service via heap buffer overflow during fat16 resize

Description

A flaw was found in parted. A heap-based buffer overflow exists in libparted's file system resizing logic when handling FAT16 volumes. By convincing a user or administrator to resize a specially crafted FAT16 file system image with malformed directory metadata, an attacker can trigger an oversized read into a fixed-size memory buffer. This issue causes memory corruption, resulting in an application crash and a denial of service (DoS).

CVSS 3.1 detail

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

Exploitable with local access to the machine, without an account and if a user takes an action; an attacker can seriously compromise confidentiality, integrity or availability.

Attack vector: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: None
Interaction: Required
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality: None
Integrity: None
Availability: High

Affected products and versions

Product	Affected versions	Fixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Versions not published

References

access.redhat.com access.redhat.com
RHBZ#2462951 bugzilla.redhat.com

Timeline

Published October 16, 2026
Last modified November 6, 2026

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