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CVE-2021-3999

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2022-08-24 Modified: 2026-06-17

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.

Affected Platforms

Netapp Ontap Select Deploy Administration UtilityNetapp H410SNetapp H410CNetapp Nfs Plug-InNetapp H300S FirmwareDebian Debian LinuxNetapp H300SGnu GlibcNetapp H700S FirmwareNetapp H410S Firmware

Weakness Type

CWE-193, CWE-193

References