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CVE-2026-5450
critical 9.8
Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.
Details
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- Last changed
- Source
- 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18
Severity
| Version | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | critical 9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0Secondary |
Affected products
Vendor and product from the NVD’s CPE applicability statements. Versions and conditions are on the NVD’s page.
- gnu · glibc
References
- https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-announce/b11f0003-6ec1-4bd6-b9de-9e38a4efeca3@redhat.com/T/#uThird Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-5450ExploitIssue Tracking
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-5450ExploitIssue Tracking