Bug#1144252: glibc: CVE-2026-6368

Salvatore Bonaccorso <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc
Message-ID <178660053969.1539773.16548149090577567148.reportbug__24546.5684145287$1786600648$gmane$org@elende.valinor.li>
Source: glibc
Version: 2.43-3
Severity: important
Tags: security upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], Debian Security Team <[email protected]>
Control: found -1 2.42-17
Control: found -1 2.41-12

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for glibc.

CVE-2026-6368[0]:
| 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.


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-2026-6368
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-6368
[1] https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=34090
[2] https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0014

Regards,
Salvatore
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