{"id":63797,"date":"2025-05-28T01:32:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-5278-gnu-coreutils-sort-utility-heap-buffer-under-read-vulnerability\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T01:32:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T22:02:21","slug":"cve-2025-5278-gnu-coreutils-sort-utility-heap-buffer-under-read-vulnerability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2025-5278-gnu-coreutils-sort-utility-heap-buffer-under-read-vulnerability\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2025-5278 &#8211; &#8220;GNU Coreutils Sort Utility Heap Buffer Under-Read Vulnerability&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CVE ID : <\/strong>CVE-2025-5278<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Published : <\/strong> May 27, 2025, 9:15 p.m. | 22\u00a0minutes ago<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Description : <\/strong>A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils. The sort utility&#8217;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.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<strong>Severity:<\/strong> 4.4 | MEDIUM<br \/>\n<br \/>\nVisit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID : CVE-2025-5278 Published : May 27, 2025, 9:15 p.m. | 22\u00a0minutes ago Description : A flaw was found in GNU Coreutils. The sort utility&#8217;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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}