CVE-2021-3999
Public on 2022-08-24
Modified on 2024-01-30
Description
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.
Severity
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CVSS v3 Base Score
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Affected Packages
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory | Status |
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Amazon Linux 2 - Core | glibc | 2022-10-21 | ALAS2-2022-1857 | Fixed |
CVSS Scores
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 7.4 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |