CVE-2026-8484

Heap buffer overflow in Jansi

State
Published
Severity
4.8 Medium
Published
Jun 16, 2026
Updated
Jun 16, 2026
Reserved
May 13, 2026

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Description

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability exists in the Jansi JNI "ioctl()" wrapper due to a lack of size verification for the argument array before the system call. This can lead to heap corruption and application crashes (DoS). All versions are believed to be vulnerable. This project is unmaintained at the time of CVE assignment.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.04.8 MediumCVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NCERT-PL

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
jansiFuseSource
  • 2.4.3 and earlierAffected

References

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