UBUNTU-CVE-2026-6368
Dashboard / Vulnerabilities / UBUNTU-CVE-2026-6368
UBUNTU-CVE-2026-6368
Published: 10 Aug 2026Last Modified: 10 Sept 2026
Upstream:
Aliases:
Summary:
Details: Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-6368, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-6368, https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2026-0014, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8737-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8737-2
Affected packages
Package
Name: eglibc
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/eglibc?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
2.17-93ubuntu4
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
Low
High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
