CVE-2025-5278

Description

A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils. The sort utility's begfield() function is vulnerable to a heap buffer under-read. The program may access memory outside the allocated buffer if a user runs a crafted command using the traditional key format. A malicious input could lead to a crash or leak sensitive data.

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-5278

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/tree/NEWS?id=8c9602e3a145e9596dc1a63c6ed67865814b6633#n14

https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=8c9602e3a145e9596dc1a63c6ed67865814b6633

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368764

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-5278

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/29/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/05/27/2

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3

EPSS