[Pkg-rust-maintainers] Bug#1135996: rust-coreutils: CVE-2026-35348

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

Source: rust-coreutils
X-Debbugs-CC: team at security.debian.org
Severity: important
Tags: security

Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for rust-coreutils.

CVE-2026-35348[0]:
| The sort utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a process
| panic when using the --files0-from option with inputs containing
| non-UTF-8 filenames. The implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding and
| utilizes expect(), causing an immediate crash when encountering
| valid but non-UTF-8 paths. This diverges from GNU sort, which treats
| filenames as raw bytes. A local attacker can exploit this to crash
| the utility and disrupt automated pipelines.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9696


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-35348
    https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35348

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.