PT-2026-33851
CVE-2026-5450
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Published
2026-04-20
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Updated
2026-10-07
Description by
CVSS 3.1
9.8
CriticalMetricsAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
glibc versions 2.7 through 2.43
Description
Calling the scanf family of functions using a %mc (malloc'd character match) with a format width specifier that has an explicit width greater than 1024 can lead to a one byte heap buffer overflow.
Recommendations
Update glibc to a version later than 2.43.
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