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Alpine Linux: CVE-2026-40200: Always-Incorrect Control Flow Implementation

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 10, 2026
Added
Apr 13, 2026
Modified
Jun 18, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in musl libc 0.7.10 through 1.2.6. Stack-based memory corruption can occur during qsort of very large arrays, due to incorrectly implemented double-word primitives. The number of elements must exceed about seven million, i.e., the 32nd Leonardo number on 32-bit platforms (or the 64th Leonardo number on 64-bit platforms, which is not practical).

Solution

alpine-linux-upgrade-musl
Title
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