Stack-based Buffer Overflow The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package coreutils (opens in a new tab)

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Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-COREUTILS-17456871
published25 Jun 2026
disclosed27 May 2025

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Introduced: 27 May 2025

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

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

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

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.