# CVE-2026-81666: Corosync: corosync: integer overflow in check\_memb\_commit\_token\_sanity may bypass message length validation on 32-bit systems

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-04 · Updated: 2026-10-21

## Affected

- corosync: version range not reported
- corosync: version range not reported
- corosync: version range not reported
- corosync: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9: version range not reported
- rhcos: version range not reported

## Description

An integer overflow was found in Corosync's handling of membership commit token messages. The length-validation check for these messages can be bypassed on 32-bit systems due to an integer overflow in the calculation of the expected message length, allowing a crafted network packet to trigger an out-of-bounds memory access that crashes the Corosync daemon. This results in a denial of service for the affected cluster node. The overflow does not occur on 64-bit systems, where the length calculation is correctly performed in 64-bit arithmetic.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on corosync, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9, rhcos, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-81666
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524923

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