MEDIUM5.5
GHSA-f2jv-wjjc-2c94
uutils coreutils has an Uncaught Exception When Encountering Valid but Non-UTF-8 Paths
Details
The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.
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Affected packages
crates.io/coreutils
Introduced in:
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