Riskcovery

CVE-2025-5278

Coreutils: heap buffer under-read in gnu coreutils sort via key specification

State
Published
Severity
4.4 Medium
Published
May 27, 2025
Updated
Oct 31, 2026
Reserved
May 27, 2025

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.4 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:Lredhat

Weaknesses

  • CWE-121 Stack-based Buffer Overflow

Affected Products

ProductVersions
coreutils
  • 7.2 to before 9.8Affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat
  • 0:9.5-8.el10_2 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat
  • 0:8.30-21.el8_10 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat
  • 0:8.32-41.el9_8 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17Red Hat
  • 1791371080 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17Red Hat
  • 1791371069 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17Red Hat
  • 1791788287 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.17Red Hat
  • 1791970484 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18Red Hat
  • 1791459707 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18Red Hat
  • 1791459711 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18Red Hat
  • 1791459759 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18Red Hat
  • 1789029076 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.18Red Hat
  • 1791966259 and laterNot affected
Cert Manager support for Red Hat OpenShift release 1.20Red Hat
  • 1790598593 and laterNot affected
Cost Management 4Red Hat
  • 1783539156 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Discovery 2Red Hat
  • 1782756541 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Discovery 2Red Hat
  • 1784821670 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Insights proxy 1.5Red Hat
  • 1782890503 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1782501180 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1782501200 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1782498923 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1782510941 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1782501220 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1782501196 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1782501195 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1785704636 and laterNot affected
Red Hat OpenShift distributed tracing 3.10.1Red Hat
  • 1785704547 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5Red Hat
  • 1784794818 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5Red Hat
  • 1784794778 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5Red Hat
  • 1784795112 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5Red Hat
  • 1784794289 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5Red Hat
  • 1784795076 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5Red Hat
  • 1787241211 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5Red Hat
  • 1787135742 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5Red Hat
  • 1787241260 and laterNot affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6Red Hat
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat
      Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat
        Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4Red Hat

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