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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="202407-16">
    <title>GNU Coreutils: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability</title>
    <synopsis>A vulnerability has been discovered in Coreutils, which can lead to a heap buffer overflow and possibly aribitrary code execution.</synopsis>
    <product type="ebuild">coreutils</product>
    <announced>2024-07-05</announced>
    <revised count="1">2024-07-05</revised>
    <bug>922474</bug>
    <access>local</access>
    <affected>
        <package name="sys-apps/coreutils" auto="yes" arch="*">
            <unaffected range="ge">9.4-r1</unaffected>
            <vulnerable range="lt">9.4-r1</vulnerable>
        </package>
    </affected>
    <background>
        <p>The GNU Core Utilities are the basic file, shell and text manipulation utilities of the GNU operating system.</p>
    </background>
    <description>
        <p>A vulnerability has been discovered in the Coreutils &#34;split&#34; program that can lead to a heap buffer overflow and possibly arbitrary code execution.</p>
    </description>
    <impact type="high">
        <p>Please review the referenced CVE identifiers for details.</p>
    </impact>
    <workaround>
        <p>There is no known workaround at this time.</p>
    </workaround>
    <resolution>
        <p>All Coreutils users should upgrade to the latest version:</p>
        
        <code>
          # emerge --sync
          # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=sys-apps/coreutils-9.4-r1"
        </code>
    </resolution>
    <references>
        <uri link="https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-0684">CVE-2024-0684</uri>
    </references>
    <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2024-07-05T09:26:36.559921Z">graaff</metadata>
    <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2024-07-05T09:26:36.562608Z">graaff</metadata>
</glsa>