Bug#1126266: glibc: CVE-2025-15281

Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc
Message-ID <176918122431.3195843.13420150307798953067.reportbug__11430.5488694058$1769181330$gmane$org@eldamar.lan>
Source: glibc
Version: 2.42-10
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2025-15281[0]:
| Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in
| the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the
| interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member,
| which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2025-15281
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-15281
[1] https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/01/20/3
[2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=80cc58ea2de214f85b0a1d902a3b668ad2ecb302

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

Regards,
Salvatore
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