Medium [CVE-2026-16277] stack buffer overflow in rpcinfo rpcbaddrlist
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-16277 affecting Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
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Summary
A stack-based buffer overflow was found in rpcbind's rpcinfo utility. When querying a remote rpcbind service with `rpcinfo -l`, address information returned by the server is copied into a fixed-size buffer without sufficient bounds checking.
A malicious or compromised rpcbind server could use this flaw to crash the rpcinfo client, resulting in a denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
We rate the flaw as Moderate because exploitation requires a user or administrator to actively run `rpcinfo -l` against a malicious or compromised rpcbind endpoint (UI:R) — it cannot be triggered without that action.
The demonstrated impact is limited to a crash of the `rpcinfo` client process; confidentiality and integrity are not affected, and no reliable code execution has been established. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 6.5 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H).
Weakness: CWE-121. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.
Red Hat does not currently list a fixing RHSA for this CVE.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat package: rpcbind.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- To mitigate this issue, avoid using the `rpcinfo -l` command against untrusted, attacker-controlled, or compromised `rpcbind` hosts. Restrict the use of the `rpcinfo` utility to trusted internal endpoints or secure test environments only.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 6 days ago·verify at source
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