CVE-2021-3998
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-08-24 00:00
Modified
2024-08-03 17:16
Severity ?
Summary
A flaw was found in glibc. The realpath() function can mistakenly return an unexpected value, potentially leading to information leakage and disclosure of sensitive data.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3998Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2024633Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3998Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20221020-0003/Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28770Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=84d2d0fe20bdf94feed82b21b4d7d136db471f03
secalert@redhat.comhttps://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Bh=ee8d5e33adb284601c00c94687bc907e10aec9bb
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2022/01/24/4Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/aglibc
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