libsmi through 0.5.0 contains an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in smiValueAsString() in lib/smi.c that allows attackers to overflow a fixed 1024-byte static buffer through hex rendering of OCTET STRING values. Attackers can supply a crafted MIB with an OCTET STRING DEFVAL of 512 or more octets and a leading 0x00 byte to corrupt adjacent library globals and crash smidump or other consumers.
Fix
Nothing published yet: no patch, vendor advisory or mitigation reference on NVD, no vendor advisory in the News for this CVE, not in CISA's KEV, no fixed package version. BaselineWatch does not guess at one.
Change history 2
- StatusReceived → DeferredNVD modified 2026-10-16 18:25
- First seenCVSS 6.9NVD modified 2026-10-15 19:17
Affected (CPE criteria) 0
NVD has not attached CPE configurations yet.
References 4
- https://github.com/amartin755/libsmi
- https://github.com/amartin755/libsmi/blob/c58307210fe995ec419db976eb234aebc71a9216/lib/smi.c#L479-L566
- https://hackmd.io/@haind-pwn/libsmi-smivalueasstring-octetstring-defval-oob-write
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/libsmi-through-0.5.0-out-of-bounds-write-via-smivalueasstring-octet-string-defval