vulnerability

SUSE: CVE-2021-35942: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
6
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Published
Jul 22, 2021
Added
Jul 28, 2021
Modified
Oct 26, 2022

Description

The wordexp function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) through 2.33 may crash or read arbitrary memory in parse_param (in posix/wordexp.c) when called with an untrusted, crafted pattern, potentially resulting in a denial of service or disclosure of information. This occurs because atoi was used but strtoul should have been used to ensure correct calculations.

Solutions

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