vulnerability

F5 Networks: CVE-2021-3999: K24207649: GNU C Library (glibc) vulnerability CVE-2021-3999

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Apr 29, 2022
Added
May 2, 2022
Modified
Aug 11, 2025

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.

Solution

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