CVE-2026-35348 — uutils coreutils sort Local Denial of Service via Forced UTF-8 Parsing
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…
Published: 2026-04-22 · CVSS: 5.5 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7