PT-2026-3558
CVE-2025-15281
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Published
2025-01-01
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Updated
2026-05-05
Description by
CVSS 2.0
7.8
HighMetricsAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions
GNU C Library versions 2.0 through 2.42
Description
Using the
wordexp function with WRDE REUSE and WRDE APPEND together in the GNU C Library can lead to the function returning uninitialized memory in the we wordv member. Subsequent calls to wordfree may then cause the process to terminate.Recommendations
Avoid using
WRDE REUSE in conjunction with WRDE APPEND when calling the wordexp function.Exploitability
Exploit
Fix
Impacts
Vendors
Affected products
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