# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-18370"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-08-10T12:56:34.454Z"
updatedAt: "2026-08-10T17:59:10.399Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:55.771Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-18370"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-18370.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-18370"
title: "Heap-based buffer overflow in entr"
summary: "entr is vulnerable to Heap-based buffer overflow in run_utility() function. The function allocates a fixed-size heap buffer using malloc(ARG_MAX) and copies command-line arguments into it. It advances the destination pointer based on the return value of strlcpy(), which returns the total length of the source string rather than the number of bytes written. When the buffer is exactly filled, the remaining size underflows as an unsigned size_t, causing subsequent copies to write out of bounds. This can be triggered by supplying command-line arguments whose combined length fills the buffer, or via the /_ substitution feature which expands a short token into a longer pathname at runtime. The local attacker can cause memory corruption, process abort, and denial of service. \n\n\nThis issue was fixed in commit 2467fe0"
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"0","status":"affected","versionType":"git","lessThanOrEqual":"5.8","changes":[{"at":"commit 2467fe0","status":"unaffected"}]}],"vendor":"eradman","product":"entr","defaultStatus":"unaffected"}]

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