Security Advisory

CVE-2021-35942

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-07-22 00:00:00
Last updated 2026-02-13 20:00:38
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.