Coreutils: heap overflow in split --line-bytes with very long lines
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.5epss 0.5%
exploitation probability
0.5%top 59% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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_bytes_split() function, potentially leading to an application crash and denial of service.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
coreutilsReferences
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0684https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258948https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2KAURFJIEYY2BWCPN4AZDYCVMFD5J4GB/https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240808-0001/https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/18/2