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        "dateReserved": "2026-07-22T10:59:31.846Z",
        "datePublished": "2026-08-19T13:21:13.455Z",
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                            "cweId": "CWE-197",
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                    "value": "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. \n\n\n\n\nMaintainer 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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