CVE-2026-8087

Publication date 7 May 2026

Last updated 24 September 2026

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

5.3 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

A security flaw has been discovered in OSGeo gdal up to 3.13.0dev-4. Impacted is the function GDnentries of the file frmts/hdf4/hdf-eos/GDapi.c. Performing a manipulation of the argument DataFieldName results in heap-based buffer overflow. The attack must be initiated from a local position. The exploit has been released to the public and may be used for attacks. Upgrading to version 3.13.0RC1 is recommended to address this issue. The patch is named 184f77dbcc74118c062c05e464c88161d3c37b9b. You should upgrade the affected component.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gdal 26.04 LTS resolute
Fixed 3.12.2+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
25.10 questing Ignored end of life, was needs-triage
24.04 LTS noble
Fixed 3.8.4+dfsg-3ubuntu3+esm1
22.04 LTS jammy
Fixed 3.4.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
20.04 LTS focal
Fixed 3.0.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
18.04 LTS bionic
Fixed 2.2.3+dfsg-2ubuntu0.1~esm1
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 1.11.3+dfsg-3ubuntu0.1~esm2
14.04 LTS trusty
Fixed 1.10.1+dfsg-5ubuntu1+esm3

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Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:

Base score 1.9 · Low

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:P

Base score 5.3 · Medium

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-8812-1
    • GDAL vulnerabilities
    • 24 September 2026

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