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7CVEs
CVE-2015-4042
Integer overflow in the keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service (application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long strings.
Published 2020-01-24 · Modified
9.8EPSS 0.023
CVE-2015-4041
The keycompare_mb function in sort.c in sort in GNU Coreutils through 8.23 on 64-bit platforms performs a size calculation without considering the number of bytes occupied by multibyte characters, which allows attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow and application crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via long UTF-8 strings.
Published 2020-01-24 · Modified
7.8EPSS 0.005
CVE-2014-9471
The parse_datetime function in GNU coreutils allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted date string, as demonstrated by the "--date=TZ="123"345" @1" string to the touch or date command.
Published 2015-01-16 · Modified
7.5EPSS 0.071
CVE-2017-18018
In GNU Coreutils through 8.29, chown-core.c in chown and chgrp does not prevent replacement of a plain file with a symlink during use of the POSIX "-R -L" options, which allows local users to modify the ownership of arbitrary files by leveraging a race condition.
Published 2018-01-04 · Modified
7.1EPSS 0.003
CVE-2016-2781
chroot in GNU coreutils, when used with --userspec, allows local users to escape to the parent session via a crafted TIOCSTI ioctl call, which pushes characters to the terminal's input buffer.
Published 2017-02-07 · Modified
6.5EPSS 0.004
CVE-2026-56392
Heap-based Buffer Overflow in GNU coreutils
Published 2026-07-24 · Analyzed
6.1EPSS 0.001
CVE-2026-56391
Out‑of‑bounds Read in GNU coreutils
Published 2026-07-24 · Analyzed
6.1EPSS 0.001