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CVE-2026-5450

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2026-04-20 Modified: 2026-07-14

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Gnu Glibc

Weakness Type

CWE-122, CWE-787

References