CVE-2026-35344 — uutils coreutils dd Silent Data Corruption via Unconditional Truncation Error Suppression
The dd utility in uutils coreutils suppresses errors during file truncation operations by unconditionally calling Result::ok() on truncation attempts. While intended to mimic GN…
Published: 2026-04-22 · CVSS: 3.3 · CVSS 3.1
The dd utility in uutils coreutils suppresses errors during file truncation operations by unconditionally calling Result::ok() on truncation attempts. While intended to mimic GNU behavior for special files like /dev/null, the uutils implementation also hides failures on regular files and directories caused by full disks or read-only file systems. This can lead to silent data corruption in backup or migration scripts, as the utility may report a successful operation even when the destination file contains old or garbage data.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7