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Permalink CVE-2026-6368
2.1 LOW
  • CVSS version (CVSS): 4.0
  • Attack Vector (AV): Local (L)
  • Attack Complexity (AC): High (H)
  • Attack Requirement (AT): Present (P)
  • Privileges Required (PR): None (N)
  • User Interaction (UI): None (N)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (VC): Low (L)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (VI): Low (L)
  • Vulnerable System Impact Availability (VA): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (SC): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Integrity (SI): Low (L)
  • Subsequent System Impact Availability (SA): Low (L)
  • Safety (S): Present (P)
  • Automatable (AU): Yes (Y)
  • Provider Urgency (U): Green (Green)
  • Modified Attack Vector (MAV): Local (L)
  • Modified Attack Complexity (MAC): High (H)
  • Modified Attack Requirement (MAT): Present (P)
  • Modified Privileges Required (MPR): None (N)
  • Modified User Interaction (MUI): None (N)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Confidentiality (MVC): Low (L)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Integrity (MVI): Low (L)
  • Modified Vulnerable System Impact Availability (MVA): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Confidentiality (MSC): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Integrity (MSI): Low (L)
  • Modified Subsequent System Impact Availability (MSA): Low (L)
  • Recovery (R): Not Defined (X)
  • Value Density (V): Not Defined (X)
  • Vulnerability Response Effort (RE): Not Defined (X)
  • Confidentiality Req. (CR): Not Defined (X)
  • Integrity Req. (IR): Not Defined (X)
  • Availability Req. (AR): Not Defined (X)
  • Exploit Maturity (E): Not Defined (X)
created 2 weeks, 5 days ago Activity log
  • Created suggestion 2 weeks, 5 days ago
wordexp with WRDE_APPEND can return or use invalid memory

Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

Affected products

glibc
  • <2.43

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pkgs.mtrace

Perl script used to interpret and provide human readable output of the trace log contained in the file mtracedata, whose contents were produced by mtrace(3)

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