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CVE-2025-5278

Date: May 27, 2025

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.

Severity Score

Related Resources (10)

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/2
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5278
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/27/2
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8c9602e3a145e9596dc1a63c6ed67865814b6633
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/1
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5278
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-5278
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368764
https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS?id=8c9602e3a145e9596dc1a63c6ed67865814b6633#n14
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2025-5278

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Stack-based Buffer Overflow

CWE-121

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): LOCAL
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): NONE
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): LOW

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