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GHSA-CM6J-GMQF-J2CM

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-10 21:32 – Updated: 2026-08-10 21:32

Details

Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

Severity

2.1 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/S:P/AU:Y/U:Green

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CVE-2026-6368 (GCVE-0-2026-6368)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-10 18:40 – Updated: 2026-08-12 18:01

Title

wordexp with WRDE_APPEND can return or use invalid memory

Summary

Severity

2.1 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L/S:P/AU:Y/U:Green

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-12 18:00 UTC

CWE

CWE-908 - Use of uninitialized resource

Assigner

glibc

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34090	issue-tracking
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
glibc	glibc	Affected: 1.93-260 , < 2.43 (custom)

Date Public

2026-07-01 18:29

Credits

shinobu

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CVE-2026-6368 (GCVE-0-2026-6368)

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