Advisories for Cargo/Uu_cut package

cut routes -z -d '' through a special newline-delimiter path that ignores the -s only-delimited flag, emitting whole undelimited records (plus NUL) that should be suppressed. Pipelines relying on cut -s to drop undelimited records process data that should be filtered. printf 'abc' | cut -z -d '' -s -f 1 | od -An -tx1 # GNU: no output ; uutils: 61 62 63 00 Zellic private finding (zellic-ext/coreutils-private PR …

The cut utility in uutils coreutils incorrectly handles the -s (only-delimited) option when a newline character is specified as the delimiter. The implementation fails to verify the only_delimited flag in the cut_fields_newline_char_delim function, causing the utility to print non-delimited lines that should have been suppressed. This can lead to unexpected data being passed to downstream scripts that rely on strict output filtering. Zellic finding 3.22. Reported in the Zellic uutils …