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Fedora 42: FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c critical: coreutils buffer issue

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Calendar Grey May 30, 2025
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Important resolution for buffer over-read vulnerability in coreutils for Fedora 42 enhances overall safety. Find update specifics here.
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 reference buffer under-read

Change Log

* Wed May 28 2025 Lukáš Zaoral - 9.6-4 - sort: fix buffer under-read (CVE-2025-5278)

References


[ 1 ] Bug #2368767 - CVE-2025-5278 coreutils: Heap Buffer Under-Read in GNU Coreutils sort via Key Specification [fedora-42] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368767

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c' 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 42
Version: 9.6
Release: 4.fc42
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Summary: A set of basic GNU tools commonly used in shell scripts

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Topics Covered

security advisory update Fedora coreutils CVE reference buffer under-read

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