Security Advisory
CVE-1999-0199
CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations
Description
manual/search.texi in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.2 lacks a statement about the unspecified tdelete return value upon deletion of a trees root, which might allow attackers to access a dangling pointer in an application whose developer was unaware of a documentation update from 1999.