Use After Free Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.34)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (80th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319109
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed25 May 2021
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 25 May 2021

CVE-2021-33574  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (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 Use After Free. 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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