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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| https://cert.pl/en/posts/2026/08/CVE-2026-65609 |
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History
Thu, 20 Aug 2026 09:45:00 +0000
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Wed, 19 Aug 2026 13:45:00 +0000
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| 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. | |
| Title | Numeric Truncation Error in nnn | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-197 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: CERT-PL
Published: 2026-08-19T13:21:13.455Z
Updated: 2026-08-19T13:21:13.455Z
Reserved: 2026-07-22T10:59:31.846Z
Link: CVE-2026-65610
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-08-19T14:17:38.227
Modified: 2026-08-19T14:17:38.227
Link: CVE-2026-65610
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