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Duplicate Advisory: uutils coreutils has an Improper Handling of Unicode Encoding Issue

Affects coreutilsSource GCVE Database

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CVSS 3.3 Low.

Data as of 7 Jul 2026, 12:28 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
3.3Low
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

What to do

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
crates.iocoreutilsAffected
  • <=0.8.0
Fixed in–

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AI-suggested

Users should monitor vendor communications for updates or fixes addressing this logic error. Until a fix is available, consider using GNU ln or avoiding non-UTF-8 filenames in affected environments.

Description

### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-jcjr-rh8q-7xqf. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description A logic error in the ln utility of uutils coreutils causes the program to reject source paths containing non-UTF-8 filename bytes when using target-directory forms (e.g., ln SOURCE... DIRECTORY). While GNU ln treats filenames as raw bytes and creates the links correctly, the uutils implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding, resulting in a failure to stat the file and a non-zero exit code. In environments where automated scripts or system tasks process valid but non-UTF-8 filenames common on Unix filesystems, this divergence causes the utility to fail, leading to a local denial of service for those specific operations.

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