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CVE-2021-45707

CRITICAL CVSS: 9.8 Published: 2021-12-27 Modified: 2026-06-17

Description

An issue was discovered in the nix crate 0.16.0 and later before 0.20.2, 0.21.x before 0.21.2, and 0.22.x before 0.22.2 for Rust. unistd::getgrouplist has an out-of-bounds write if a user is in more than 16 /etc/groups groups.

Affected Platforms

Nix Project Nix

Weakness Type

CWE-787

References