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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3999: Moderate: glibc security update (ALSA-2022-0896)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-3999: Moderate: glibc security update (ALSA-2022-0896)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
03/15/2022
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

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(s)

  • alma-upgrade-compat-libpthread-nonshared
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-benchtests
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-nss-devel
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-static
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • alma-upgrade-nss_hesiod

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