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Busybox: busybox: dpkg-deb extraction-root escape via per-ar-member deferred symlink flush

Type: advisorySource: Official CVE List1 source record

A flaw was found in BusyBox's dpkg-deb archive extraction. The ar archive handler flushes deferred symlinks after each archive member, unlike the tar, cpio, and unzip handlers which flush once after the last member. A specially crafted .deb archive with two data.tar members can exploit this ordering: the first member declares a symlink pointing to an absolute path (e.g., '/'), which is deferred as unsafe but flushed after the first member. The second member declares a regular file whose path traverses the now-live symlink, resulting in a file being written outside the intended extraction directory. This could allow an attacker to write arbitrary files to arbitrary locations when a user extracts a crafted .deb package.

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CVE-2026-90954

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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-90954

Red Hat Hardened Images

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[
  {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:/a:redhat:hummingbird:1"
    ],
    "vendor": "Red Hat",
    "product": "Red Hat Hardened Images",
    "packageName": "busybox",
    "collectionURL": "https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/",
    "defaultStatus": "affected"
  }
]
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CVE-2026-90954

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high

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#40076 · Revision 1
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