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CVE-2026-5450
Published:April 20, 2026
Updated:May 18, 2026
Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.
Related Resources (2)
https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-announce/b11f0003-6ec1-4bd6-b9de-9e38a4efeca3@redhat.com/T/#u
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-5450
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
9.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
HIGH
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
9.8
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
Heap-based Buffer Overflow
CWE-122
Out-of-bounds Write
CWE-787
EPSS
Base Score:
0.05