GNU coreutils buffer overflow vulnerability

GNU coreutils is a core toolset of the GNU community. GNU coreutils suffers from a buffer overflow vulnerability that originates from a boundary error in the function begfield in the sort tool when handling untrusted input, which can be exploited by an attacker to cause a crash or data disclosure...

PT-2025-23038

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GNU Coreutils affected versions not specified Description A flaw was found in the sort utility's begfield function, which is vulnerable to a heap buffer under-read. This issue may cause the program to access memory outside the allocated buffer...

CVE-2016-2781

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...