SUNDAY, APRIL 19, 2026 GLIBC DIGEST · OPEN-SOURCE SYSTEMS DAILY VOL. 1 · NO. 109
Late Edition · APRIL 19, 2026 · VOL. 1 · NO. 109
The glibc Digest
— A Daily Record of the GNU C Library —
stdio-common Leading the Digest

Stdio-common: Fix buffer overflow in scanf %mc [BZ #34008]

This patch fixes a one-byte buffer overflow in glibc's scanf when using the %mc format specifier.

What's at Stake — This patch fixes a user-controlled buffer overflow, which could lead to security vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-5450).

Today’s Digest

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glibc Proposed

Add system-wide tunables

This series introduces system-wide tunables configurable via /etc/tunables.conf, allowing administrators to adjust glibc behavior per-process.