CVE-2026-5928

Calling the ungetwc function on a FILE stream with wide characters encoded in a character set that has overlaps between its single byte and multi-byte character encodings, in the GNU C Library version 2.43 or earlier, may result in an attempt to read bytes before an allocated buffer, potentially resulting in unintentional disclosure of neighboring data in the heap, or a program crash. A bug in the wide character pushback implementation (_IO_wdefault_pbackfail in libio/wgenops.c) causes ungetwc() to operate on the regular character buffer (fp->_IO_read_ptr) instead of the actual wide-stream read pointer (fp->_wide_data->_IO_read_ptr). The program crash may happen in cases where fp->_IO_read_ptr is not initialized and hence points to NULL. The buffer under-read requires a special situation where the input character encoding is such that there are overlaps between single byte representations and multibyte representations in that encoding, resulting in spurious matches. The spurious match case is not possible in the standard Unicode character sets.
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cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

History

23 Apr 2026, 15:33

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References () https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33998 - () https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33998 - Exploit, Issue Tracking
CPE cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
First Time Gnu
Gnu glibc

21 Apr 2026, 20:17

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References () https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33998 - () https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=33998 -
CVSS v2 : unknown
v3 : unknown
v2 : unknown
v3 : 7.5

20 Apr 2026, 21:16

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-04-20 21:16

Updated : 2026-04-23 15:33


NVD link : CVE-2026-5928

Mitre link : CVE-2026-5928

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-5928


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Products Affected

gnu

  • glibc
CWE
CWE-127

Buffer Under-read