Use of Uninitialized Resource The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package glibc-benchtests (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS9-GLIBCBENCHTESTS-15046994
- published21 Jan 2026
- disclosed20 Jan 2026
Introduced: 20 Jan 2026
CVE-2025-15281 (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 glibc-benchtests package and not the glibc-benchtests package as distributed by Centos.
Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.