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Fedora 41: FEDORA-2025-f344084b93 critical: coreutils buffer under-read

fedora
Calendar Grey June 8, 2025
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Tackling a buffer over-read in Fedora coreutils, improving system robustness and security for users.
sort: fix buffer under-read (CVE-2025-5278)

Summary

These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of

the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

Update Information:

sort: fix buffer under-read (CVE-2025-5278)

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora coreutils CVE description buffer under-read

Change Log

* Wed May 28 2025 Lukáš Zaoral - 9.5-12 - sort: fix buffer under-read (CVE-2025-5278)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2368766 - CVE-2025-5278 coreutils: Heap Buffer Under-Read in GNU Coreutils sort via Key Specification [fedora-41] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368766

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-f344084b93' at the command line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label

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Name: coreutils
Product: Fedora 41
Version: 9.5
Release: 12.fc41
URL:
Summary: A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora coreutils CVE description buffer under-read

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