Dash: dash: heap out-of-bounds write in conv_escape via undersized unicode escape reservation
A flaw was found in dash. The printf builtin reserves four bytes before converting a Unicode \u or \U escape, but the multi-byte token can need five or six bytes. A local user who can supply such an escape to dash printf or echo %b, including through dash -c and a positional argument, can write one or two bytes past that reservation.
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Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-102474
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
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- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-102474
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