Medium [CVE-2026-95622] Reachable assertion in Cell Broadcast encoding parse causes denial of service
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-95622.
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Summary
Reachable assertion in Cell Broadcast encoding parse causes denial of service. Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 6.5).
Weakness: CWE-617.
Affected versions
No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 9 days ago·verify at source
Fixed versions
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Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 9 days ago·verify at source
Mitigation checklist
- On hosts that do not need WWAN, disable or mask ModemManager. There is no practical mitigation for a host that must process Cell Broadcast (emergency channels typically cannot be unsubscribed). The fix is to treat unrecognized encodings as a parse error instead of asserting.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 9 days ago·verify at source
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