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Medium ELSA-2026-67886 2 CVEs

Moderate: coreutils security update (Oracle Linux 10)

Published Sep 16, 2026 · Updated Sep 16, 2026

Summary

[9.5-8.0.1.el10_2.1]
- clean up empty file if cp is failed [Orabug 15973168]

[9.5-8.1]
- uniq: fix CVE-2026-56391 (RHEL-216794)
- fix read overrun with -w
- unexpand: fix CVE-2026-56392 and related crashes (RHEL-216784)
- fix direct.sh and unexpand/mb.sh tests
- fix unexpand/expand crash on invalid multibyte characters
- fix heap overflow with large tab stops
- fix heap overflow when a wide blank overshoots a tab stop

Fixed packages 3

ReleasePackageFixed in
Oracle Linux · 10 coreutils 0:9.5-8.0.1.el10_2.1
Oracle Linux · 10 coreutils-common 0:9.5-8.0.1.el10_2.1
Oracle Linux · 10 coreutils-single 0:9.5-8.0.1.el10_2.1

Vulnerabilities 2

  • Medium 4.6

    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 i…

  • Low 1.8

    Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GNU coreutils

    GNU coreutils unexpand is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow due to an integer overflow during buffer allocation when processing large tab stop (-t) values. The multiplication used to calculate the allocation size can wrap around, resulting in an unde…