CVE-2024-0684: GNU Coreutils

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GNU Coreutils: version 9.2 only; version 9.3 only; version 9.4 only

Published 2024-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.