CVE 3.3 LOW

uutils coreutils dd Silent Data Corruption via Unconditional Truncation Error Suppression_CVE-2026-35344

3.3 / 10
LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Description

The dd utility in uutils coreutils suppresses errors during file truncation operations by unconditionally calling Result::ok() on truncation attempts. While intended to mimic GNU behavior for special files like /dev/null, the uutils implementation also hides failures on regular files and directories caused by full disks or read-only file systems. This can lead to silent data corruption in backup or migration scripts, as the utility may report a successful operation even when the destination file contains old or garbage data.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-35344
Source canonical
Published Apr 22, 2026 at 16:07

Affected Product

Vendor Uutils
Product coreutils

CWE Classification

References

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