#1136044 rust-coreutils: CVE-2026-35360

Package:
src:rust-coreutils
Source:
src:rust-coreutils
Submitter:
Moritz Mühlenhoff
Date:
2026-08-06 21:59:04 UTC
Severity:
normal
Tags:
#1136044#5
Date:
2026-05-08 18:23:49 UTC
From:
To:
Hi,

The following vulnerability was published for rust-coreutils.

CVE-2026-35360[0]:
| The touch utility in uutils coreutils is vulnerable to a Time-of-
| Check to Time-of-Use (TOCTOU) race condition during file creation.
| When the utility identifies a missing path, it later attempts
| creation using File::create(), which internally uses O_TRUNC. An
| attacker can exploit this window to create a file or swap a symlink
| at the target path, causing touch to truncate an existing file and
| leading to permanent data loss.

https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/10019


If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the
CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry.

For further information see:

[0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-35360
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-35360

Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.

#1136044#14
Date:
2026-08-06 21:57:47 UTC
From:
To:
These CVEs are all fixed in the upstream 0.10.0 release, which was
uploaded to unstable as rust-coreutils 0.10.0-1:

#1135993 CVE-2026-35344 dd: propagate truncate errors on regular files
#1135994 CVE-2026-35345 tail: treat a watched file replaced by a symlink
as untailable
#1136042 CVE-2026-35352 mkfifo: drop path-based chmod, closing the
TOCTOU race
#1136044 CVE-2026-35360 touch: create without O_TRUNC so a raced open no
longer truncates
#1136202 CVE-2026-35374 split: harden output open path against TOCTOU
target swaps
#1136203 CVE-2026-35376 chcon: anchor recursive relabel resolution to
the traversal dirfd
#1136207 CVE-2026-35377 env: keep backslashes literal in single quotes,
matching GNU

Cheers
Sylvestre