Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Jan 20, 2026· Updated Jan 22, 2026
wordexp with WRDE_REUSE and WRDE_APPEND may return uninitialized memory
CVE-2025-15281
Description
Calling wordexp with WRDE_REUSE in conjunction with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.42 may cause the interface to return uninitialized memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.
Affected products
2- Range: >=2.0, <=2.42
- The GNU C Library/glibcv5Range: 2.0
Patches
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