CVE-2026-56391 (GCVE-0-2026-56391)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-24 07:44
Modified
2026-07-24 12:31
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Summary
GNU coreutils uniq is vulnerable to an out‑of‑bounds read due to incorrect handling of multibyte input when the -w (--check-chars) option is used. The find_field() function miscalculates the byte length of characters by repeatedly processing a fixed pointer instead of advancing through the input, resulting in an inflated length value.
This incorrect length is later used in a memcmp operation, causing reads beyond the allocated buffer when processing crafted multibyte input.
When running GNU coreutils uniq with attacker-provided arguments, this behavior leads to a crash and potential adjacent heap memory exposure.
This issue has been fixed in the commit d64e35a8a4c0e4608321433e0d84d917e4e36371.
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