CVE-2026-5450

· NIST NVD ↗

Calling the scanf family of functions with a %mc (malloc'd character match) in the GNU C Library version 2.7 to version 2.43 with a format width specifier with an explicit width greater than 1024 could result in a one byte heap buffer overflow.

CRITICAL
CVSS severity
9.8
CVSS base score
2026-04-20
Published

CWE codes

CWE-122CWE-787

Affected products

gnu:glibc

Sources