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Low · 3.3 CVE-2026-35346 EUVD-2026-24978GHSA-6gcw-w7cp-94g9GHSA-hwhf-8p2f-45wr

uutils coreutils comm Silent Data Corruption via Lossy UTF-8 Normalization

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

Description

The comm utility in uutils coreutils silently corrupts data by performing lossy UTF-8 conversion on all output lines. The implementation uses String::from_utf8_lossy(), which replaces invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD). This behavior differs from GNU comm, which processes raw bytes and preserves the original input. This results in corrupted output when the utility is used to compare binary files or files using non-UTF-8 legacy encodings.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Uutils coreutils < 0.6.0 0.6.0

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 0.6.0-1 —
Debian 13 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Debian 12 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 25.10 rust-coreutils No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-coreutils No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io uu_comm < 0.6.0 0.6.0 GHSA-6gcw-w7cp-94g9

References