Vulnerabilities > GNU > Coreutils

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2024-02-06 CVE-2024-0684 Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in GNU Coreutils 9.2/9.3/9.4
A flaw was found in the GNU coreutils "split" program.
local
low complexity
gnu CWE-787
5.5
2020-01-24 CVE-2015-4042 Integer Overflow or Wraparound vulnerability in GNU Coreutils
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 crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long strings.
network
low complexity
gnu CWE-190
critical
9.8
2020-01-24 CVE-2015-4041 Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in GNU Coreutils 8.23
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 bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.
local
low complexity
gnu CWE-787
7.8
2018-01-04 CVE-2017-18018 Race Condition vulnerability in GNU Coreutils
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" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition.
local
high complexity
gnu CWE-362
4.7
2017-09-20 CVE-2015-1865 Race Condition vulnerability in GNU Coreutils 8.4
fts.c in coreutils 8.4 allows local users to delete arbitrary files.
local
high complexity
gnu CWE-362
4.7
2017-02-07 CVE-2016-2781 Improper Input Validation vulnerability in GNU Coreutils
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 characters to the terminal's input buffer.
local
low complexity
gnu CWE-20
6.5