Use of Uninitialized Resource Affecting glibc-common package, versions <0:2.28-251.el8_10.31


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GLIBCCOMMON-15048293
  • published21 Jan 2026
  • disclosed20 Jan 2026

Introduced: 20 Jan 2026

CVE-2025-15281  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-908  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 glibc-common to version 0:2.28-251.el8_10.31 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2026:4772.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-common package and not the glibc-common package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1