CVE-2021-3999
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- 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.
- Last updated date:
- 02/12/2023
- Type:
- exploit
- Confidence:
- HIGH
- Date of publishing:
- 08/29/2022
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