CVE-2026-35369
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.
- CVSS 3.1
- 5.5
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H - EPSS
- 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 2% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)
- CWE
- CWE-20
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- uutils:coreutils
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-p6rv-2qpm-fwvg | crates.io | uu_kill | <0.6.0 | 0.6.0 |