Vulnerability in the GNU split utility leading to buffer overflow
A vulnerability has been identified in the split utility, provided in the GNU coreutils package and used for splitting large files into parts (CVE-2024-0684). This vulnerability causes a buffer overflow when processing long lines (several hundred bytes) if the '—line-bytes' ('-C') option is used. The vulnerability was discovered during an analysis of failures occurring while using the split utility to divide data transmitted in […]
