printenv: environment variables with invalid UTF-8 are silently skipped (evades inspection)

The printenv utility in uutils coreutils fails to display environment variables containing invalid UTF-8 byte sequences. While POSIX permits arbitrary bytes in environment strings, the uutils implementation silently skips these entries rather than printing the raw bytes. This vulnerability allows...

GHSA-47C7-QRM7-MQW7 id: groups= computed from real GID instead of effective GID

The id utility in uutils coreutils miscalculates the groups= section of its output. The implementation uses a user's real GID instead of their effective GID to compute the group list, leading to potentially divergent output compared to GNU coreutils. Because many scripts and automated processes...

mkdir: -m exposes directory with umask perms before chmod (race window)

The mkdir utility in uutils coreutils incorrectly applies permissions when using the -m flag by creating a directory with umask-derived permissions typically 0755 before subsequently changing them to the requested mode via a separate chmod system call. In multi-user environments, this introduces ...

GHSA-6GCW-W7CP-94G9 comm: lossy UTF-8 conversion silently corrupts non-UTF-8 output

The comm utility in uutils coreutils silently corrupts data by performing lossy UTF-8 conversion on all output lines. The implementation uses String::fromutf8lossy, which replaces invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with the Unicode replacement character U+FFFD. This behavior differs from GNU comm, whic...

mktemp: empty TMPDIR creates temp files in CWD instead of /tmp

The mktemp utility in uutils coreutils fails to properly handle an empty TMPDIR environment variable. Unlike GNU mktemp, which falls back to /tmp when TMPDIR is an empty string, the uutils implementation treats the empty string as a valid path. This causes temporary files to be created in the...