🛡️ OESA-2026-1254 — autogen (CVE-2025-8746)

🟡 CVSS 5.0 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
5.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

autogen security update

AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is especially valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that must be kept synchronised.

Security Fix(es):

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU libopts up to 27.6. Affected is the function __strstr_sse2. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approach this attack. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. This issue was initially reported to the tcpreplay project, but the code maintainer explains, that this "bug appears to be in libopts which is an external library." This vulnerability only affects products that are no longer supported by the maintainer.(CVE-2025-8746)

Affected software

OESA-2026-1254 is recorded against 1 package.

  • autogen (fixed in 5.18.16-4.oe2003sp4)

Timeline and source

Published on 30 January 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 5.0
CVSS Vector N/A
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2026-01-30
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-01-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
autogen — 5.18.16-4.oe2003sp4

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