CVE 3.3 LOW

uutils coreutils comm Silent Data Corruption via Lossy UTF-8 Normalization_CVE-2026-35346

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

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