GHSA-vgv2-whp7-2895MediumCVSS 6.1
hashcat's fgetl() function in src/filehandling.c writes a null terminator one byte past the...
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
hashcat's fgetl() function in src/filehandling.c writes a null terminator one byte past the caller's buffer when an input line is exactly the buffer length. Attackers can trigger this out-of-bounds heap write by providing a hash file, potfile, or wordlist containing a line of exactly HCBUFSIZ_LARGE bytes.
🔗 References (7)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-68767
- https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/issues/4739
- https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/commit/93b55d37d3b2340013d4036f10181ddc67d44249
- https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat
- https://github.com/hashcat/hashcat/blob/v7.1.2/src/filehandling.c#L1032-L1060
- https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/hashcat-through-off-by-one-out-of-bounds-heap-write-in-fgetl
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vgv2-whp7-2895