Local process crash via argument-buffer size underflow
Published Aug 10, 2026 · Updated Aug 10, 2026
Heap-based buffer overflow in entr 5.8 and earlier allows local users to corrupt process memory and crash the utility via crafted arguments. In run_utility(), strlcpy() reports each source's full length after copying into an ARG_MAX heap buffer, so an exact fill underflows the unsigned remaining count and permits later out-of-bounds writes. Exploitation requires a local user to invoke entr with a boundary-length argument set or a /_ token that expands to a longer pathname, and the documented consequence is memory corruption or process abort.
Summary
What happened
Heap-based buffer overflow in entr 5.8 and earlier allows local users to corrupt process memory and crash the utility via crafted arguments. In run_utility(), strlcpy() reports each source's full length after copying into an ARG_MAX heap buffer, so an exact fill underflows the unsigned remaining count and permits later out-of-bounds writes. Exploitation requires a local user to invoke entr with a boundary-length argument set or a /_ token that expands to a longer pathname, and the documented consequence is memory corruption or process abort.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-18370
- Published
- Aug 10, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 10, 2026
- Vendor
- Eric Radman
- Product
- entr
- Classifications
- CWE-122, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Aug 10, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 10, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=0 <=5.8 changes=[{"at":"commit 2467fe0","status":"unaffected"}]
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