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 comm utility in uutils coreutils silently corrupts data by performing lossy UTF-8 conversion on all output lines. The implementation uses String::from_utf8_lossy(), which replaces invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD). This behavior differs from GNU comm, which processes raw bytes and preserves the original input. This results in corrupted output when the utility is used to compare binary files or files using non-UTF-8 legacy encodings.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-35346
Source
canonical
Published
Apr 22, 2026 at 16:07
Affected Product
Vendor
Uutils
Product
coreutils
Affected Versions
Uutils coreutils 0