GHSA-255r-gqmx-m2jmLowCVSS 2.5

A flaw was found in popt, a command-line option parsing library. An off-by-one error in the...

Published
August 4, 2026
Last Modified
August 19, 2026

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📋 Description

A flaw was found in popt, a command-line option parsing library. An off-by-one error in the poptStuffArgs function, when repeatedly called by a host application or through deep alias nesting, can lead to corruption of internal program data. This corruption could potentially enable a local attacker to execute arbitrary code if the host application then unsafely processes the altered data.

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