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Critical Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in GNU C Library Affect Multiple Ubuntu Releases

Critical Denial of Service Vulnerabilities in GNU C Library Affect Multiple Ubuntu Releases

First seen 4 Feb 2026, 12:57 UTC • •

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ThreatCluster •March 12, 2026 at 13:27 UTC

A critical security issue in the GNU C Library affects various Ubuntu releases, including 25.10 and several LTS versions. Discovered by Vitaly Simonovich, the vulnerability arises from improper input initialization when WRDE_REUSE is used, potentially allowing attackers to crash applications and cause denial of service. Another vulnerability, identified by Anastasia Belova, relates to memory allocation failures in the regcomp function, also leading to possible denial of service or execution of arbitrary code.

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