CVE-2026-5450

CRITICAL

THE GNU C Library Glibc < 2.7 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: rule

Description

Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.0004
EPSS Percentile 13.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-122 CWE-787
Status published
Products (2)
gnu/glibc 2.7 - 2.43
The GNU C Library/glibc 2.7
Published Apr 20, 2026
Tracked Since Apr 21, 2026