CVE-2025-5278
CVE-2025-5278: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare source-reported impact, fixes and remediation.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium4.4
Medium [CVE-2025-5278] heap buffer under-read in gnu coreutils sort via key specification
CVE-2025-5278Source published Source updated
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 severity of this issue is considered Moderate rather than Critical because successful exploitation requires the use of the traditional key specification syntax with an exceptionally large character position value, which is uncommon in typical usage. Although the vulnerability can lead to a heap buffer overflow resulting in a read one byte before the allocated buffer, it does not enable code execution, privilege escalation, or direct compromise of data confidentiality or integrity.…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Cost Management Metrics Operator 4
- Red Hat Discovery 2
8 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- coreutils-0:9.5-8.el10_2
- coreutils-0:8.32-41.el9_8
- costmanagement/costmanagement-metrics-rhel9-operator:1783539156
- discovery/discovery-ui-rhel9:1782756541
25 more entries in the full advisory.
- Mitigation guidance
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.
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