CVE-2024-0684
Coreutils: heap overflow in split --line-bytes with very long lines
- Published
- Feb 6, 2024
- Updated
- Nov 4, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- fedora
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 41.1%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
A flaw was found in the GNU coreutils "split" program. A heap overflow with user-controlled data of multiple hundred bytes in length could occur in the line_bytes_split() function, potentially leading to an application crash and denial of service.
Sources
1- writeup_splitResearch
Writeup of a heap overflow vulnerability in the GNU coreutils split program. CVE-2024-0684
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