FKIE_CVE-2021-3999

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2022-08-24 16:15 - Updated: 2026-10-14 10:17
Summary
A flaw was found in glibc. An off-by-one buffer overflow and underflow in getcwd() may lead to memory corruption when the size of the buffer is exactly 1. A local attacker who can control the input buffer and size passed to getcwd() in a setuid program could use this flaw to potentially execute arbitrary code and escalate their privileges on the system.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3999Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024637Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3999Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0001/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28769Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=23e0e8f5f1fb5ed150253d986ecccdc90c2dcd5e
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/24/4Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3999Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024637Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.htmlMailing List, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3999Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221104-0001/Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28769Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=23e0e8f5f1fb5ed150253d986ecccdc90c2dcd5e
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/24/4Exploit, Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html
0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-831302.html

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