CVE-2024-0684

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    CVE-2024-0684

    Published: 6 Feb 2024Last Modified: 28 Oct 2026

    Summary: Coreutils: heap overflow in split --line-bytes with very long lines

    Details: A flaw was found in the GNU coreutils "split" program. A heap overflow with user-controlled data of multiple hundred bytes in length could occur in the line_bytes_split() function, potentially leading to an application crash and denial of service.

    References: https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-794697.html, https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/2KAURFJIEYY2BWCPN4AZDYCVMFD5J4GB/, https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/01/18/2, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-0684, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2024/0xxx/CVE-2024-0684.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0684, https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240808-0001/, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2258948, https://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=coreutils.git

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- df4e4fbc7d4605b7e1c69bff33fd6af8727cf1bf
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    9.2

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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