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Low · 3.3 CVE-2026-35344 EUVD-2026-24975GHSA-wh8p-h9hw-x2mc

uutils coreutils dd Silent Data Corruption via Unconditional Truncation Error Suppression

Published Apr 22, 2026 · Updated Apr 22, 2026 · Assigned by canonical

Description

The dd utility in uutils coreutils suppresses errors during file truncation operations by unconditionally calling Result::ok() on truncation attempts. While intended to mimic GNU behavior for special files like /dev/null, the uutils implementation also hides failures on regular files and directories caused by full disks or read-only file systems. This can lead to silent data corruption in backup or migration scripts, as the utility may report a successful operation even when the destination file contains old or garbage data.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Uutils coreutils — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rust-coreutils 0.10.0-1 —
Debian 13 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Debian 12 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 rust-coreutils 0.10.0-1ubuntu1 —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS rust-coreutils 0.10.0-1ubuntu2~26.04.1 USN-9041-1
Ubuntu 25.10 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-coreutils No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling uutils 0.8.0-r2 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io coreutils <= 0.8.0 — GHSA-wh8p-h9hw-x2mc

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