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.

INFO

Published Date :

2026-04-20T20:55:41.170Z

Last Modified :

2026-04-21T19:49:53.221Z

Source :

glibc
AFFECTED PRODUCTS

The following products are affected by CVE-2026-5450 vulnerability.

Vendors Products
Gnu
  • Glibc
The Gnu C Library
  • Glibc
REFERENCES

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information to CVE-2026-5450.

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https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-announce/[email protected]/T/#u cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-5450 cve-icon
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2026-5450 cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon cve-icon
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-5450 cve-icon
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