CVE-2026-6791 (GCVE-0-2026-6791)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 18:41 – Updated: 2026-08-12 18:01
VLAI
Title
Potential stack-based buffer clash during tilde expansion in wordexp
Summary
When expanding paths that begin with a tilde (~) followed by a username, the internal parse_tilde function extracts the username to determine the user's home directory. The implementation allocates memory for this username directly on the stack using the strndupa macro. Because the size of this allocation was determined by the length of the user-supplied input without any bounds checks, passing an excessively long username e.g. thousands of characters, forces the thread to exhaust its stack space. Thus if an application passes untrusted, attacker-controlled input to the wordexp function, an attacker can trigger a stack clash.
Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:H/SC:N/SI:L/SA:H/E:U
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-12 18:01 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-121 - Stack-based buffer overflow
Assigner
glibc CNA under the redhat root
CNA scorecard B 80/100 over 14 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
The GNU C Library glibc Affected: 2.0 , ≤ 2.43 (custom)
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Credits
storm / 고준용 <rhwnsdyd1112@gmail.com>
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