Issued at: 2026-09-23
Updated at: 2026-09-23
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:69964, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Moderate: coreutils security update
Description
The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Security Fix(es):
* coreutils: Heap Buffer Under-Read in GNU Coreutils sort via Key Specification (CVE-2025-5278)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.