medium4.4
CVE-2025-5278
A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils.
Impact
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 input could lead to a crash or leak sensitive data.
Affected packages
This record carries no package version data, so it cannot be matched against a dependency list automatically. Read the advisory and compare your version by hand.
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:28911
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33124
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33313
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:33612
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34102
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:39981
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:44481
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:46836
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:50205
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:58981
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:69964
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:72502
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82304
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82322
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82347
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82354
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82372
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82857
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:82888
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5278
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368764
- https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8c9602e3a145e9596dc1a63c6ed67865814b6633
- https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=78507
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/27/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/1