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CVE-2026-5450

scanf %mc off-by-one heap buffer overflow

CVSS 9.8 CRITICALEPSS 0.5%CWE-122
Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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