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High · 8.1 CVE-2026-40200 EUVD-2026-21496

An issue was discovered in musl libc 0.7.10 through 1.2.6. Stack-based memory corruption can occur during qsort of very large arrays, due t…

Published Apr 10, 2026 · Updated Apr 14, 2026 · Assigned by mitre

Description

An issue was discovered in musl libc 0.7.10 through 1.2.6. Stack-based memory corruption can occur during qsort of very large arrays, due to incorrectly implemented double-word primitives. The number of elements must exceed about seven million, i.e., the 32nd Leonardo number on 32-bit platforms (or the 64th Leonardo number on 64-bit platforms, which is not practical).

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
musl-libc musl 0.7.10 – ≤ 1.2.6 —

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 musl 1.2.5-3.1 —
Debian 13 musl 1.2.5-3.1~deb13u1 —
Debian 12 musl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 musl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS musl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 25.10 musl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS musl No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS musl No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS musl No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS musl No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS musl No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS musl No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.24 musl 1.2.6-r2 —
Alpine v3.23 musl 1.2.5-r23 —
Alpine v3.22 musl 1.2.5-r12 —
Alpine v3.21 musl 1.2.5-r11 —
Alpine v3.20 musl 1.2.5-r3 —
Show 1 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Alpine v3.19 musl 1.2.4_git20230717-r6 —

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