NULL Pointer Dereference Affecting glibc package, versions [0,2.34)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.88% (83rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319091
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed12 Aug 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 12 Aug 2021

CVE-2021-38604  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-476  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.34 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to NULL Pointer Dereference. In librt in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) through 2.34, sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c mishandles certain NOTIFY_REMOVED data, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: this vulnerability was introduced as a side effect of the CVE-2021-33574 fix.

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