CVE-2026-6368

Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

CVSS

No CVSS.

References

Link	Resource
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34090
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0014;h=1e9a0039f07471ddfe6816e5df04875bec409f92;hb=HEAD

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History

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Information

Published : 2026-08-10 19:17

Updated : 2026-09-03 16:43

NVD link : CVE-2026-6368

Mitre link : CVE-2026-6368

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-6368

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Products Affected

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CWE

CWE-908

Use of Uninitialized Resource

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