Stack-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package coreutils-common  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-COREUTILSCOMMON-10257738
  • published28 May 2025
  • disclosed27 May 2025

Introduced: 27 May 2025

CVE-2025-5278  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-121  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:9.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream coreutils-common package and not the coreutils-common package as distributed by Centos.

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.

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