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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…
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Medium 4.4
Coreutils: heap buffer under-read in gnu coreutils sort via key specification
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 inpu…
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Medium 4.6
chroot in GNU coreutils, when used with --userspec, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TI…