CVEvulnerability
CVE-2025-15281
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Analyzed
- Published
- 2026-01-20
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- 3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-908
Description
Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (>= 2.0 < 2.43)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-908 Use of Uninitialized Resource weakness
References
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33814 Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/3 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory