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.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - 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.
    (CVE-2025-5278)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

According to the versions of the coreutils package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

    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.(CVE-2025-5278)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS coreutils security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLED_SAP15 / SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02362-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-5278: Fixed heap buffer under-read may lead to a crash or leak sensitive data (bsc#1243767)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2025:02354-1 advisory.

    Security fixes:

    - CVE-2025-5278: Fixed heap buffer under-read may lead to a crash or leak sensitive data (bsc#1243767)

    Other fixes:

    - ls: avoid triggering automounts (bsc#1221632)
    - tail: fix tailing sysfs files where PAGE_SIZE > BUFSIZ (bsc#1219321)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES12 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE- SU-2025:02353-1 advisory.

    - CVE-2025-5278: Fixed heap buffer under-read may lead to a crash or leak sensitive data (bsc#1243767)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 42 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c advisory.

    sort: fix buffer under-read (CVE-2025-5278)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Fedora 41 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2025-f344084b93 advisory.

    sort: fix buffer under-read (CVE-2025-5278)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update of the coreutils package has been released.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
257905	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-5278	Nessus	Misc.	medium
249292	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-1922)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
249184	EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : coreutils (EulerOS-SA-2025-1948)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	medium
242372	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : coreutils (SUSE-SU-2025:02362-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
242304	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : coreutils (SUSE-SU-2025:02354-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
242298	SUSE SLES12 Security Update : coreutils (SUSE-SU-2025:02353-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
241312	Fedora 42 : coreutils (2025-f791604f4c)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
237938	Fedora 41 : coreutils (2025-f344084b93)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
237935	Photon OS 4.0: Coreutils PHSA-2025-4.0-0810	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
237934	Photon OS 5.0: Coreutils PHSA-2025-5.0-0530	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium

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