diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/CVE-2026-42250.patch b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/CVE-2026-42250.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1679e74447
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2/CVE-2026-42250.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+From 71bf61d2e664c754ae5b1eb04018c8eaf5f99ae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
+Date: Thu, 28 May 2026 16:15:45 +0200
+Subject: [PATCH] bzip2recover: Make sure to not process more than
+ BZ_MAX_HANDLED_BLOCKS
+
+There is an off-by-one in the check before calling tooManyBlocks. This
+causes the scanning loop to run one more time and cause a possible
+read or write one past the global bStart, bEnd, rbStart and rbEnd
+buffers. There are no known exploits of this issue and you will need
+to compile with something like gcc -fsanitize=address (ASAN
+AddressSanitizer) to observe the faulty read/write.
+
+This has been assigned CVE-2026-42250.
+
+CVE: CVE-2026-42250
+Upstream-Status: Backport [https://sourceware.org/cgit/bzip2/commit/?id=35d122a3df8b0cc4082a4d89fdc6ee99f375fe67]
+Signed-off-by: Jaipaul Cheernam <jaipaul.cheernam@est.tech>
+---
+ bzip2recover.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/bzip2recover.c b/bzip2recover.c
+index a8131e0..4b1c219 100644
+--- a/bzip2recover.c
++++ b/bzip2recover.c
+@@ -402,7 +402,7 @@ Int32 main ( Int32 argc, Char** argv )
+             rbEnd[rbCtr] = bEnd[currBlock];
+             rbCtr++;
+          }
+-         if (currBlock >= BZ_MAX_HANDLED_BLOCKS)
++         if (currBlock >= BZ_MAX_HANDLED_BLOCKS - 1)
+             tooManyBlocks(BZ_MAX_HANDLED_BLOCKS);
+          currBlock++;
+ 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
index 9cecf6a331..36267e5073 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/bzip2/bzip2_1.0.8.bb
@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ SRC_URI = "https://sourceware.org/pub/${BPN}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
            file://Makefile.am;subdir=${BP} \
            file://run-ptest \
            file://0001-fix-bzip2-version-tmp-aaa-will-hang.patch;subdir=${BP} \
+           file://CVE-2026-42250.patch;subdir=${BP} \
            "
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ab5a03176ee106d3f0fa90e381da478ddae405918153cca248e682cd0c4a2269"