4.6

CVE-2026-56391

Out‑of‑bounds Read in GNU coreutils

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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HerstellerGNU
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Produkt coreutils
Default Statusunaffected
Version <= 9.11
Version 9.5
Status affected
VulnDex Vulnerability Enrichment
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EPSS Metriken
Typ Quelle Score Percentile
EPSS FIRST.org 0.14% 0.033
CVSS Metriken
Quelle Base Score Exploit Score Impact Score Vector String
cvd@cert.pl 4.6 0 0
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:L/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.

https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/07/CVE-2026-56391
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=d64e35a8a4c0e4608321433e0d84d917e4e36371