CVE-2026-35369 — uutils coreutils kill System-wide Process Termination and Denial of Service via Argument Misinterpretation
An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to…
Published: 2026-04-22 · CVSS: 5.5 · CVSS 3.1
An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7