CVE-1999-0199
manual/search.texi in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.2 lacks a statement about the unspecified tdelete return value upon deletion of a tree's root, which might allow attackers to access a dangling pointer in an application whose developer was unaware of a documentation update from 1999.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 9.8 Critical
- Status
- Modified - cve@mitre.org
- Published
- 2020-10-06
- Last modified
- 2024-08-01
- Weaknesses
- CWE-252
Affected products
References
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.tar.gz
- https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/2864e767053317538feafa815046fff89e5a16be#diff-94e8c502f255fdfc346df0e29fd4ef40
- https://www.cee.studio/tdelete.html
