The comm utility in uutils coreutils silently corrupts data by performing lossy UTF-8 conversion on all output lines. The implementation uses String::from_utf8_lossy(), which replaces invalid UTF-8 byte sequences with the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD). This behavior differs from GNU comm, which processes raw bytes and preserves the original input. This results in corrupted output when the utility is used to compare binary files or files using non-UTF-8 legacy encodings.
Fix
Patch, vendor advisory and mitigation references on NVD 3
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/10206 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Every line above is quoted from NVD, CISA, Microsoft, the vendor's own advisory or DISA; nothing is generated.
Change history 1
- First seenCVSS 3.3 · uutilsNVD modified 2026-10-26 22:10
Affected (CPE criteria) 1
cpe:2.3:a:uutils:coreutils:*:*:*:*:*:rust:*:*
References 4
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/10206 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0 Release Notes
- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10192 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory