CVE-2026-6368: Glibc

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Calling wordexp with WRDE_APPEND in the GNU C Library version 2.0 to version 2.43 can cause the interface to return invalid memory in the we_wordv member, which on subsequent calls to wordfree may abort the process.

Affected products

• Glibc Glibc: from 1.93-260, before 2.43 (fixed in 2.43)

Published 2026-08-10. Last modified 2026-09-03.