RLSA-2026:69964

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Source

https://errata.rockylinux.org/RLSA-2026:69964

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:69964.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/RLSA-2026:69964

Upstream

CVE-2025-5278

Published

2026-09-23T06:00:55Z

Modified

2026-09-23T06:30:03Z

Severity

4.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L CVSS Calculator

Summary

Moderate: coreutils security update

Details

The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

Security Fix(es):

coreutils: Heap Buffer Under-Read in GNU Coreutils sort via Key Specification (CVE-2025-5278)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Database specific

{
    "license":  "CC-BY-4.0",
    "license_url":  "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "source_advisory":  "RHSA-2026:69964"
}

References

Credits

- Rocky Enterprise Software Foundation
- Red Hat

Affected packages

Rocky Linux:8 / coreutils

Package

Name: coreutils
Purl: pkg:rpm/rocky-linux/coreutils?distro=rocky-linux-8&epoch=0

Affected ranges

Type

ECOSYSTEM

Events

Introduced

Fixed

0:8.30-21.el8_10

Database specific

Show details

{
    "yum_repository":  "BaseOS"
}

Database specific

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/resf-osv-data/RLSA-2026:69964.json"