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CVE-2026-68767

MEDIUM CVSS: 6.1 Published: 2026-08-22 Modified: 2026-08-26

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.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-193

References