CVE-2025-15281 (GCVE-0-2025-15281)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-01-20 13:22 – Updated: 2026-01-20 17:08
VLAI?
Title
wordexp with WRDE_REUSE and WRDE_APPEND may return uninitialized memory
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-908 - Use of Uninitialized Resource
Assigner
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
The GNU C Library glibc Affected: 2.0 , ≤ 2.42 (custom)
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Credits
Vitaly Simonovich
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