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FKIE_CVE-2026-44028

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-05-05 01:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:50
Severity
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
An issue was discovered in Nix before 2.34.7 and Lix before 2.95.2. Unbounded recursion in the NAR (Nix Archive) parser could lead to a stack-to-heap overflow when the parser is run on a coroutine stack. The stack is allocated without a guard page, which means that a stack overflow could overwrite memory on the heap and could allow arbitrary code execution as the Nix daemon (run as root in multi-user installations) if ASLR hardening is bypassed. This can be exploited by all users able to connect to the daemon (e.g., in Nix, this is configurable via the allowed-users setting, defaulting to all users). The fixed versions are 2.34.7, 2.33.6, 2.32.8, 2.31.5, 2.30.5, 2.29.4, and 2.28.7 for Nix (introduced in 2.24.4); and 2.95.2, 2.94.2, and 2.93.4 for Lix (introduced in 2.93.0).
References
cve@mitre.orghttps://discourse.nixos.org/t/security-advisory-local-privilege-escalation-in-lix-and-nix/77407
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/NixOS/nix/security/advisories/GHSA-vh5x-56v6-4368
cve@mitre.orghttps://lix.systems/blog/2026-05-05-lix-unsigned-integer-overflow/
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/04/32
cve@mitre.orghttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/05/04/33
Impacted products
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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T10:50:12.857",
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