7.5
CVSSv3

CVE-2021-3998

Published: 24/08/2022 Updated: 12/02/2023
CVSS v3 Base Score: 7.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 0

Vulnerability Summary

It exists that the GNU C Library nscd daemon incorrectly handled certain netgroup lookups. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause the GNU C Library to crash, resulting in a denial of service. This issue only affected Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. (CVE-2021-27645)

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Vendor Advisories

Several security issues were fixed in GNU C Library ...
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 ...

Mailing Lists

Hello Can someone clarify CVE-2021-44730 dependency on hardlinking? This passage: Why it isn't possible to copy the snap-confine binary into a directory for the same effect -- instead of hardlinking it? I cannot see how hardlink is different from a simple copy in this context Thanks! Feb 17, 2022, 19:47 by qsa () qualys com: ...
Qualys Security Advisory Oh Snap! More Lemmings (Local Privilege Escalation in snap-confine) ======================================================================== Contents ======================================================================== Summary Two minor bugs An unexploitable bug CVE-2021-44730: Hardlink attack in snap-confine's sc_o ...
Hi all, We discovered two vulnerabilities in the glibc, CVE-2021-3998 in realpath() and CVE-2021-3999 in getcwd() Patches are now available at (many thanks to Siddhesh Poyarekar and Red Hat Product Security): sourcewareorg/git/gitwebcgi?p=glibcgit;h=ee8d5e33adb284601c00c94687bc907e10aec9bb sourcewareorg/git/gitwebcgi?p=glibc ...