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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-35348 EUVD-2026-24980GHSA-f2jv-wjjc-2c94

uutils coreutils sort Local Denial of Service via Forced UTF-8 Parsing

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

Description

The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.

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-f2jv-wjjc-2c94

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