# CVE-2026-35344: uutils coreutils dd Silent Data Corruption via Unconditional Truncation Error Suppression

- Also known as: GHSA-WH8P-H9HW-X2MC
- Severity: CVSS 3.3 (Low), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-04-22 · Updated: 2026-04-22

## Affected

- coreutils: version range not reported
- coreutils (crates.io): through 0.8.0

## Description

The dd utility in uutils coreutils suppresses errors during file truncation operations by unconditionally calling Result::ok() on truncation attempts. While intended to mimic GNU behavior for special files like /dev/null, the uutils implementation also hides failures on regular files and directories caused by full disks or read-only file systems. This can lead to silent data corruption in backup or migration scripts, as the utility may report a successful operation even when the destination file contains old or garbage data.

## What to do

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## Related

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## References

- https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/issues/9745

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