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CVE-2026-35369
MEDIUM5.5
Description
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.
CVE Details
CVSS v3.1 Score5.5
SeverityMEDIUM
CVSS VectorCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack VectorLOCAL
ComplexityLOW
Privileges RequiredLOW
User InteractionNONE
Published4/22/2026
Last Modified4/22/2026
Sourcenvd
Honeypot Sightings0
Weaknesses (CWE)
CWE-20
References
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/pull/9700(security@ubuntu.com)
https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/releases/tag/0.6.0(security@ubuntu.com)
IOC Correlations
No correlations recorded
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