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Duplicate Advisory: uutils coreutils Uses Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference

Affects coreutilsSource GCVE Database

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CVSS 4.4 Medium : upgrade to 0.7.0 when convenient.

Data as of 7 Jul 2026, 12:28 UTC

CVSS 3.1 base score
4.4Medium
How severe the flaw is on the 0–10 CVSS scale.
Patch
Available – fixed in 0.7.0
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

What to do

Upgrade coreutils to 0.7.0.

Affected software

ProductAffectedFixed in
crates.iocoreutilsAffected
  • <0.7.0
Fixed in
  • 0.7.0

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AI-suggested

Since this advisory is a duplicate and withdrawn, refer to the original advisory for official fixes or mitigations.

Description

### Duplicate Advisory This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-8vrf-r662-2w2v. This link is maintained to preserve external references. ### Original Description The cp utility in uutils coreutils, when performing recursive copies (-R), incorrectly treats character and block device nodes as stream sources rather than preserving them. Because the implementation reads bytes into regular files at the destination instead of using mknod, device semantics are destroyed (e.g., /dev/null becomes a regular file). This behavior can lead to runtime denial of service through disk exhaustion or process hangs when reading from unbounded device nodes.

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