Description

An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-22T16:08:51.268Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-22T17:48:32.873Z

Source :

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The following products are affected by CVE-2026-35369 vulnerability.

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Uutils
  • Coreutils
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https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9700 cve-icon cve-icon
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0 cve-icon cve-icon
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