Security Advisory

CVE-2021-3999

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2022-08-24 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-12-02 20:54:34
Assigner redhat
State PUBLISHED

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.