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MEDIUM
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Description
The cp utility in uutils coreutils, when performing recursive copies (-R), incorrectly treats character and block device nodes as stream sources rather than preserving them. Because the implementation reads bytes into regular files at the destination instead of using mknod, device semantics are destroyed (e.g., /dev/null becomes a regular file). This behavior can lead to runtime denial of service through disk exhaustion or process hangs when reading from unbounded device nodes.
Basic Information
ID
CVE-2026-35358
Source
canonical
Published
Apr 22, 2026 at 16:08
Affected Product
Vendor
Uutils
Product
coreutils
Affected Versions
Uutils coreutils 0