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CVE-2025-15281

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15281

Severity

7.5

High

CVSS V3

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Summary

wordexp with WRDE_REUSE and WRDE_APPEND may return uninitialized memory

Description

Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

References

  • https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-15281
  • https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-qg56-4cfq-w9w3
  • http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/3
  • https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/15xxx/CVE-2025-15281.json
  • https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33814

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