fkie_cve-2025-5278
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2025-05-27 21:15
Modified
2025-10-22 20:15
Severity ?
4.4 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
Summary
A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils. The sort utility's begfield() function is vulnerable to a heap buffer under-read. The program may access memory outside the allocated buffer if a user runs a crafted command using the traditional key format. A malicious input could lead to a crash or leak sensitive data.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5278
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368764
secalert@redhat.comhttps://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8c9602e3a145e9596dc1a63c6ed67865814b6633
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/27/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8c9602e3a145e9596dc1a63c6ed67865814b6633
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS?id=8c9602e3a145e9596dc1a63c6ed67865814b6633#n14
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-5278
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