CVE-2026-71972

Name	CVE-2026-71972
Description	U-Boot through 2026.10-rc5 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the video_display_rle8_bitmap function in drivers/video/video_bmp.c. Attackers can supply a crafted RLE8-compressed BMP image to corrupt memory adjacent to the framebuffer and crash the bootloader.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
u-boot (PTS)	bookworm, bookworm (security)	2023.01+dfsg-2+deb12u3	vulnerable
	trixie	2025.01-3+deb13u1	vulnerable
	forky, sid	2025.01-3.2	vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Urgency	Origin	Debian Bugs
u-boot	source	(unstable)	(unfixed)

Fixed by: https://github.com/u-boot/u-boot/commit/5201e83342d64c2f438ea35158575f28225e752e