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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2025-15281

wordexp with WRDE_REUSE and WRDE_APPEND may return uninitialized memory

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

The GNU C Library glibc

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.0 to ≤ 2.42affected

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