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CVE-2026-35369

uutils coreutils kill System-wide Process Termination and Denial of Service via Argument Misinterpretation PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

An argument parsing error in the kill utility of uutils coreutils incorrectly interprets kill -1 as a request to send the default signal (SIGTERM) to PID -1. Sending a signal to PID -1 causes the kernel to terminate all processes visible to the caller, potentially leading to a system crash or massive process termination. This differs from GNU coreutils, which correctly recognizes -1 as a signal number in this context and would instead report a missing PID argument.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Uutils / coreutilsaffected 0 before 0.6.0

CWE

CWE-20

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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