CVE-2026-35348

The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.

Score
CVSS 3.1 5.5 Medium
Status
Analyzed - security@ubuntu.com
Published
2026-04-22
Last modified
2026-10-26
Weaknesses
CWE-248

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