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DEBIAN-CVE-2026-6368

Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv mem...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 glibc

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:13 glibc

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Debian:14 glibc

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.43-4"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org