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> as it had basically never had any major security vulnerabilities in its entire existence. This link[0] shows a CVE with CVSS of 9.8 in 2015 (and a handful of
by mijoharas 1y ago
> as it had basically never had any major security vulnerabilities in its entire existence.
This link[0] shows a CVE with CVSS of 9.8 in 2015 (and a handful of smaller ones). From this other page on the same site[1], it claims that all of all 5 of the CVE's are caused by overflow or memory corruption.
[0] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/product_id-5075/GNU-Coreutils.html https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list/vendor_id-72/p...
[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/product/5075/GNU-Coreutils.html?vendor_id=72 https://www.cvedetails.com/product/5075/GNU-Coreutils.html?v...
- khamidou 1y agoI mean the one bug with the 9.8 CVSS was a denial of service when calling sort(1). That sounds like CVE grade inflation tbh – if you have attackers running sort on your machine they can probably run worse exploits.