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Numeric Truncation Error in nnn

Published Aug 19, 2026

Description

nnn stores homelen variable as uchar_t, which can only represent values in the range 0-255. An attacker who can influence the victim's execution environment can provide an arbitrary HOME path with length that is truncated to 0. The expression (homelen - 1) is promoted to signed int and becomes -1 and producing an out-of-bounds read and an out-of-bounds write one byte before the path buffer. 

Maintainer of this project was notified about this vulnerability. It might has been addressed, but the maintainer did not provide a vulnerable version range. Only version 5.2 was tested and confirmed as vulnerable.

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Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (1)

References (1)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner CERT-PL
Published Aug 19, 2026
Updated Aug 20, 2026
Reserved Jul 22, 2026
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated Aug 20, 2026
NVD
Status Deferred
Modified Aug 28, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a