CVE-2025-15281 Affecting glibc-profile package, versions <2.38-150600.14.40.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.49% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES157-GLIBCPROFILE-15220712
  • published5 Feb 2026
  • disclosed3 Feb 2026

Introduced: 3 Feb 2026

CVE-2025-15281  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.7 glibc-profile to version 2.38-150600.14.40.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-profile package and not the glibc-profile package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.7 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