PT-2026-61925 · Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10+3

CVE-2026-16461 · Published 2026-07-21 · Updated 2026-07-21

NVD

CVSS v3.1

6.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

A stack-based buffer overflow was found in rpcbind's rpcinfo utility. In rpcbdump() short mode (used by rpcinfo -s), version numbers from a remote RPCBPROC DUMP reply are written into a fixed-size stack buffer without bounds checking. A user or administrator who runs rpcinfo -s against a malicious or compromised rpcbind endpoint could experience a crash or denial of service of the rpcinfo client.

Fix

Stack Overflow

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-121

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-16461

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Red Hat Openshift Container Platform 4

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16461 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16461 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2502719 · Note