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.
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"cna_assigner": "canonical",
"cwe_ids": [
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]
}{
"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:uutils:coreutils:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*",
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"fixed": "0.6.0"
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}