AZL-74819 CVE-2025-15281 affecting package glibc for versions less than 2.38-18

Calling wordexp with WRDEREUSE in conjunction with WRDEAPPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the wewordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process...

UBUNTU-CVE-2025-15281

Calling wordexp with WRDEREUSE in conjunction with WRDEAPPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the wewordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process...

CVE-2025-15281

CVE-2025-15281 concerns the GNU C Library (glibc). The issue arises when wordexp is used with WRDE_REUSE together with WRDE_APPEND, which can cause we_wordv to be returned with uninitialized memory. On subsequent wordfree calls this memory state may trigger a process abort. The CVE is reflected i...