It was discovered that GNU Core Utilities sort had a heap buffer under-read in its begfield() function. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU Core Utilities to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. ( CVE-2025-5278 ) It was discovered that GNU Core Utilities uniq had an out-of-bounds read when the -w option was used with crafted multibyte input. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU Core Utilities to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-56391 )
It was discovered that GNU Core Utilities sort had a heap buffer under-read in its begfield() function. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU Core Utilities to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. ( CVE-2025-5278 )
It was discovered that GNU Core Utilities uniq had an out-of-bounds read when the -w option was used with crafted multibyte input. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU Core Utilities to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-56391 )
It was discovered that GNU Core Utilities sort had a heap buffer under-read in its begfield() function. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU Core Utilities to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. ( CVE-2025-5278 ) It was discovered that GNU Core Utilities uniq had an out-of-bounds read when the -w option was used with crafted multibyte input. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU Core Utilities to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-56391 )
It was discovered that GNU Core Utilities sort had a heap buffer under-read in its begfield() function. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU Core Utilities to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. ( CVE-2025-5278 )
It was discovered that GNU Core Utilities uniq had an out-of-bounds read when the -w option was used with crafted multibyte input. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause GNU Core Utilities to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or obtain sensitive information. This issue only affected Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. ( CVE-2026-56391 )
In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.
The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:
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