Vulnerabilities > CVE-1999-0199 - Unchecked Return Value vulnerability in GNU Glibc
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
References
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.tar.gz
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.tar.gz
- https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/2864e767053317538feafa815046fff89e5a16be#diff-94e8c502f255fdfc346df0e29fd4ef40
- https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/2864e767053317538feafa815046fff89e5a16be#diff-94e8c502f255fdfc346df0e29fd4ef40
- https://www.cee.studio/tdelete.html
- https://www.cee.studio/tdelete.html