Gnu Coreutils
12 CVEs affecting Gnu Coreutils. Latest disclosed: 2026-07-24. Critical: 1, High: 2.
| CVE | Severity | Score | Published | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
CVE-2015-4042 | Critical | 9.8 | 2020-01-24 | Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application… |
CVE-2015-4041 | High | 7.8 | 2020-01-24 | The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of by… |
CVE-2017-18018 | High | 7.1 | 2018-01-04 | In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" opti… |
CVE-2024-0684 | Medium | 5.5 | 2024-02-06 | A flaw was found in the GNU coreutils "split" program. A heap overflow with user-controlled data of multiple hundred bytes in length could occur in the line_by… |
CVE-2015-1865 | Medium | 5.1 | 2017-09-20 | fts.c in coreutils 8.4 allows local users to delete arbitrary files. |
CVE-2016-2781 | Medium | 4.6 | 2017-02-07 | chroot in GNU coreutils, when used with --userspec, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes character… |
CVE-2026-56392 | | 2026-07-24 | GNU coreutils unexpand is vulnerable to a heap-based buffer overflow due to an integer overflow during buffer allocation when processing large tab stop (-t) va… | |
CVE-2026-56391 | | 2026-07-24 | GNU coreutils uniq is vulnerable to an out‑of‑bounds read due to incorrect handling of multibyte input when the -w (--check-chars) option is used. The find_fie… | |
CVE-2014-9471 | | 2015-01-16 | The parse_datetime function in GNU coreutils allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted date… | |
CVE-2009-4135 | | 2009-12-11 | The distcheck rule in dist-check.mk in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 through 8.1 allows local users to gain privileges via a symlink attack on a file in a directory tree… | |
CVE-2008-1946 | | 2008-07-28 | The default configuration of su in /etc/pam.d/su in GNU coreutils 5.2.1 allows local users to gain the privileges of a (1) locked or (2) expired account by ent… | |
CVE-2005-1039 | | 2005-05-02 | Race condition in Core Utilities (coreutils) 5.2.1, when (1) mkdir, (2) mknod, or (3) mkfifo is running with the -m switch, allows local users to modify permis… |