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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-15816

A flaw was found in dracut. The die() error-handling function writes its message into a shell script under the initramfs emergency-hook directory with...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A flaw was found in dracut. The die() error-handling function writes its message into a shell script under the initramfs emergency-hook directory without properly shell-quoting it. When the message contains data derived from the DHCP ROOT_PATH option, an attacker on the adjacent network who controls a rogue DHCP server can inject a command-substitution sequence that executes as root the next time dracut sources its emergency hook scripts during standard boot-failure handling.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 dracut
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:13 dracut
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]
Debian:14 dracut
[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"112-2"}]}]

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