Use After Free Affecting glibc-langpack-mr package, versions <0:2.28-164.el8


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-GLIBCLANGPACKMR-4133098
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed21 May 2021

Introduced: 21 May 2021

CVE-2021-33574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 glibc-langpack-mr to version 0:2.28-164.el8 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:4358.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc-langpack-mr package and not the glibc-langpack-mr package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

The mq_notify function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) versions 2.32 and 2.33 has a use-after-free. It may use the notification thread attributes object (passed through its struct sigevent parameter) after it has been freed by the caller, leading to a denial of service (application crash) or possibly unspecified other impact.

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