CVE-2026-56391

GNU coreutils uniq is vulnerable to an out‑of‑bounds read due to incorrect handling of multibyte input when the -w --check-chars option is used. The findfield function miscalculates the byte length of characters by repeatedly processing a fixed pointer instead of advancing through the input,...

binutils: abort in readelf via crafted ELF binary with malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information

A flaw was found in binutils. Processing a specially crafted ELF binary file containing malformed DWARF abbrev or debug information with the readelf program using the -w abbrev command line option can trigger an abort, causing a crash and resulting in a denial of service...

CLSA-2025-1765289483 elfutils: Fix of 3 CVEs

CVE-2025-1352: fix memory corruption when using -w option with a specially crafted input file - CVE-2025-1365: fix buffer overflow when using the -D and -a options with a specially crafted input file - CVE-2025-1372: fix buffer overflow when using the -z and -x options with a specially crafted...

CVE-2020-5210: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input

In NetHack before 3.6.5, an invalid argument to the -w command line option can cause a buffer overflow resulting in a crash or remote code execution/privilege escalation. This vulnerability affects systems that have NetHack installed suid/sgid and shared systems that allow users to influence...

CVE-2016-7938

Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols. An attacker could create a crafted pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network segment where tcpdump is running in live capture mode without -w which...

CVE-2016-7932

Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols. An attacker could create a crafted pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network segment where tcpdump is running in live capture mode without -w which...

CVE-2016-7974

Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols. An attacker could create a crafted pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network segment where tcpdump is running in live capture mode without -w which...

CVE-2017-5202

Multiple out of bounds read and integer overflow vulnerabilities were found in tcpdump affecting the decoding of various protocols. An attacker could create a crafted pcap file or send specially crafted packets to the network segment where tcpdump is running in live capture mode without -w which...