Bug 2368767

Summary: CVE-2025-5278 coreutils: Heap Buffer Under-Read in GNU Coreutils sort via Key Specification [fedora-42]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Abhishek Raj <abhraj>
Component: coreutilsAssignee: Lukáš Zaoral <lzaoral>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 42CC: admiller, jamartis, kdudka, kzak, lzaoral, nixuser, ovasik, p, svashisht, vmihalko
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["8c0ea31d-13e2-492f-9f45-4bc6106ca6cc"]}
Fixed In Version: coreutils-9.6-4.fc42 Doc Type: ---
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Description Abhishek Raj 2025-05-27 14:18:00 UTC 
More information about this security flaw is available in the following bug:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2368764

Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.
Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2025-05-28 08:49:15 UTC 
FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c (coreutils-9.6-4.fc42) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 42.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c
Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2025-05-29 01:18:34 UTC 
FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c has been pushed to the Fedora 42 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.
Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2025-05-30 01:15:50 UTC 
FEDORA-2025-f791604f4c (coreutils-9.6-4.fc42) has been pushed to the Fedora 42 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.