REDHAT-BUG-2024637: Buffer Overflow
First published: Thu Nov 18 2021(Updated: )
A flaw was found in glibc. The getcwd() function is affected by an off-by-one buffer overflow and underflow that may lead to memory corruption when the size of the buffer is exactly 1 byte.
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| GNU C Library (glibc) |
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Reference Links
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi/show_bug.cgi?id=2039676
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28769
- https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=23e0e8f5f1fb5ed150253d986ecccdc90c2dcd5e
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0896
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-3999
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024637
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