GNU vulnerabilities
We track 100 vulnerabilities in GNU products across 26 products. 100 are rated high or critical, and 5 have been exploited in real attacks. The most recent was published on October 11, 2026.
Latest GNU vulnerabilities
- 7.8 High severity
Binutils: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A flaw has been found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Impacted is the function _bfd_elf_parse_eh_frame of the file bfd/elf-eh-frame.c of the component Linker. Executing manipulation can lead to heap-based buffer overflow. The attack is restricted to local execution. The
- 7.8 High severity
Binutils: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected by this issue is the function bfd_elf_set_group_contents of the file bfd/elf.c. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds write. It is possible to launch the atta
- 7.8 High severity
Binutils: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A vulnerability classified as problematic was found in GNU Binutils 2.45. Affected by this vulnerability is the function copy_section of the file binutils/objcopy.c. The manipulation leads to heap-based buffer overflow. Attacking locally is a requirement. The
- 8.2 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
A heap-buffer-overflow (off-by-one) flaw was found in the GnuTLS software in the template parsing logic within the certtool utility. When it reads certain settings from a template file, it allows an attacker to cause an out-of-bounds (OOB) NULL pointer write,
- 8.2 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Double Free
A flaw was found in GnuTLS. A double-free vulnerability exists in GnuTLS due to incorrect ownership handling in the export logic of Subject Alternative Name (SAN) entries containing an otherName. If the type-id OID is invalid or malformed, GnuTLS will call asn
- 7.8 High severity
Binutils: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A vulnerability classified as critical has been found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. This affects the function debug_type_samep of the file /binutils/debug.c of the component objdump. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. Local access is required to approa
- 7.8 High severity
Binutils: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.44. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function elf_gc_sweep of the file bfd/elflink.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. An attack has to be approached
- 9.1 Critical severity
PSPP: Out-of-bounds Read
libpspp-core.a in GNU PSPP through 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause an spvxml-helpers.c spvxml_parse_attributes out-of-bounds read, related to extra content at the end of a document.
- 9.8 Critical severity
PSPP: Out-of-bounds Write
libpspp-core.a in GNU PSPP through 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow in inflate_read (called indirectly from zip_member_read_all) in zip-reader.c.
- 9.8 Critical severity
PSPP: Out-of-bounds Write
libpspp-core.a in GNU PSPP through 2.0.1 allows attackers to cause a heap-based buffer overflow in inflate_read (called indirectly from spv_read_xml_member) in zip-reader.c.
- 8.1 High severity
Mailman: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command
GNU Mailman 2.1.39, as bundled in cPanel (and WHM), in certain external archiver configurations, allows unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in an email Subject line. NOTE: multiple third parties report that they
- 7.5 High severity
Mailman: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
GNU Mailman 2.1.39, as bundled in cPanel (and WHM), allows unauthenticated attackers to read arbitrary files via ../ directory traversal at /mailman/private/mailman (aka the private archive authentication endpoint) via the username parameter. NOTE: multiple th
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Integer Overflow or Wraparound
A flaw was found in grub2. When reading data from a squash4 filesystem, grub's squash4 fs module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem geometry to determine the internal buffer size, however, it improperly checks for integer overflows. A maliciou
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
A flaw was found in the HFS filesystem. When reading an HFS volume's name at grub_fs_mount(), the HFS filesystem driver performs a strcpy() using the user-provided volume name as input without properly validating the volume name's length. This issue may read t
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Out-of-bounds Write
When reading data from a hfs filesystem, grub's hfs filesystem module uses user-controlled parameters from the filesystem metadata to calculate the internal buffers size, however it misses to properly check for integer overflows. A maliciouly crafted filesyste
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
When reading data from disk, the grub's UDF filesystem module utilizes the user controlled data length metadata to allocate its internal buffers. In certain scenarios, while iterating through disk sectors, it assumes the read size from the disk is always small
- 7.8 High severity
elfutils: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
A vulnerability was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. It has been declared as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is the function dump_data_section/print_string_section of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument z/x lea
- 7.8 High severity
elfutils: Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input
A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, was found in GNU elfutils 0.192. This affects the function process_symtab of the file readelf.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument D/a leads to buffer overflow. Local access is requi
- 7.5 High severity
elfutils: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A vulnerability has been found in GNU elfutils 0.192 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects the function __libdw_thread_tail in the library libdw_alloc.c of the component eu-readelf. The manipulation of the argument w leads to memory corruption
- 7.5 High severity
Binutils: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
A vulnerability was found in GNU Binutils 2.43. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is the function bfd_putl64 of the file bfd/libbfd.c of the component ld. The manipulation leads to memory corruption. The attack may be launched remotely. The
- 7.5 High severity
Binutils: Out-of-bounds Write
A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in GNU Binutils up to 2.43. This affects the function disassemble_bytes of the file binutils/objdump.c. The manipulation of the argument buf leads to stack-based buffer overflow. It is possible to
- 7.8 High severity
emacs: Improper Control of Generation of Code
In elisp-mode.el in GNU Emacs before 30.1, a user who chooses to invoke elisp-completion-at-point (for code completion) on untrusted Emacs Lisp source code can trigger unsafe Lisp macro expansion that allows attackers to execute arbitrary code. (This unsafe ex
- 8.1 High severity
guix: Incorrect Default Permissions
guix-daemon in GNU Guix before 5ab3c4c allows privilege escalation because build outputs are accessible by local users before file metadata concerns (e.g., for setuid and setgid programs) are properly addressed. The vulnerability can be remediated within the p
- 9.8 Critical severity
emacs: Improper Control of Generation of Code
In Emacs before 29.4, org-link-expand-abbrev in lisp/ol.el expands a %(...) link abbrev even when it specifies an unsafe function, such as shell-command-to-string. This affects Org Mode before 9.7.5.
- 9.1 Critical severity
wget: Interpretation Conflict
url.c in GNU Wget through 1.24.5 mishandles semicolons in the userinfo subcomponent of a URI, and thus there may be insecure behavior in which data that was supposed to be in the userinfo subcomponent is misinterpreted to be part of the host subcomponent.
- 7.4 High severity
glibc: Return of Pointer Value Outside of Expected Range
nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache can corrupt memory when the NSS callback does not store all strings in the provided buffer. The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the ca
- 7.3 High severity
glibc: Reachable Assertion
nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache uses xmalloc or xrealloc and these functions may terminate the process due to a memory allocation failure resulting in a denial of serv
- 7.6 High severity
Savane: Improper Control of Generation of Code
An issue was discovered in GNU Savane v.3.13 and before, allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code and escalate privileges via a crafted file to the upload.php component.
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9: Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature
A vulnerability was found in GnuTLS, where a cockpit (which uses gnuTLS) rejects a certificate chain with distributed trust. This issue occurs when validating a certificate chain with cockpit-certificate-ensure. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote clie
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Observable Discrepancy
A vulnerability was found in GnuTLS. The response times to malformed ciphertexts in RSA-PSK ClientKeyExchange differ from the response times of ciphertexts with correct PKCS#1 v1.5 padding. This issue may allow a remote attacker to perform a timing side-channe
- 7.8 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: Out-of-bounds Write
An out-of-bounds write flaw was found in grub2's NTFS filesystem driver. This issue may allow an attacker to present a specially crafted NTFS filesystem image, leading to grub's heap metadata corruption. In some circumstances, the attack may also corrupt the U
- 7.8 High severity
GNU C Library Buffer Overflow Exploited
A buffer overflow was discovered in the GNU C Library's dynamic loader ld.so while processing the GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variable. This issue could allow a local attacker to use maliciously crafted GLIBC_TUNABLES environment variables when launching binari
- 7.5 High severity
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6: Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
A flaw was found in the GNU C Library. A recent fix for CVE-2023-4806 introduced the potential for a memory leak, which may result in an application crash.
- 7.8 High severity
Binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function compare_symbols.
- 7.8 High severity
Binutils: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
An issue was discovered Binutils objdump before 2.39.3 allows attackers to cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts via function bfd_mach_o_get_synthetic_symtab in match-o.c.
- 7.8 High severity
Binutils: Out-of-bounds Read
An issue was discovered in Binutils addr2line before 2.39.3, function parse_module contains multiple out of bound reads which may cause a denial of service or other unspecified impacts.
- 7.8 High severity
Inetutils: Unchecked Return Value
GNU inetutils before 2.5 may allow privilege escalation because of unchecked return values of set*id() family functions in ftpd, rcp, rlogin, rsh, rshd, and uucpd. This is, for example, relevant if the setuid system call fails when a process is trying to drop
- 7.8 High severity
GNU GRUB: Use After Free
There's a use-after-free vulnerability in grub_cmd_chainloader() function; The chainloader command is used to boot up operating systems that doesn't support multiboot and do not have direct support from GRUB2. When executing chainloader more than once a use-af
- 7.0 High severity
GNU GRUB: Out-of-bounds Write
Out-of-bounds write when handling split HTTP headers; When handling split HTTP headers, GRUB2 HTTP code accidentally moves its internal data buffer point by one position. This can lead to a out-of-bound write further when parsing the HTTP request, writing a NU
- 8.1 High severity
GNU GRUB: Integer Underflow (Wrap or Wraparound)
Integer underflow in grub_net_recv_ip4_packets; A malicious crafted IP packet can lead to an integer underflow in grub_net_recv_ip4_packets() function on rsm->total_len value. Under certain circumstances the total_len value may end up wrapping around to a smal