CVE-2026-35373
type: TechArticle
description: A logic error in the ln utility of uutils coreutils causes the program to reject source paths containing non-UTF-8 filename bytes when using target-directory forms (e.g., ln SOURCE... DIRECTORY). While GNU ln treats filenames as raw bytes and creates the links correctly, the uutils implementation enforces UTF-8 encoding, resulting in a failure to stat the file and a non-zero exit code. In environments where automated scripts or system tasks process valid but non-UTF-8 filenames common on Unix filesystems, this divergence causes the utility to fail, leading to a local denial of service for those specific operations.
date published: 2026-04-22T17:16:41.997
license: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-35373
publisher: AI Analytics
source organization: NIST National Vulnerability Database
main entity: Thing
  additional type: Vulnerability
  score: 3.3
  severity: LOW
keywords: CWE-176

AI Analytics
type: Organization