CVE-2021-38604CWE-476

CVE-2021-38604

High · published August 12, 2021

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
4%
Percentile
89.7
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

In librt in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) through 2.34, sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c mishandles certain NOTIFY_REMOVED data, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. NOTE: this vulnerability was introduced as a side effect of the CVE-2021-33574 fix.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.03721 · 89.7th percentile
Weakness
CWE-476 · NULL Pointer Dereference
Published
2021-08-12T20:15Z
Affected products (11)
ProductVersionsFixed in
gnu/glibc≤ 2.34—
fedoraproject/fedoraall versions—
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_binding_support_functionall versions—
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_network_function_cloud_native_environmentall versions—
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_network_repository_functionall versions—
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_network_repository_functionall versions—
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_security_edge_protection_proxyall versions—
oracle/communications_cloud_native_core_unified_data_repositoryall versions—
oracle/enterprise_operations_monitorall versions—
oracle/enterprise_operations_monitorall versions—
oracle/enterprise_operations_monitorall versions—
References (18)
https://blog.tuxcare.com/cve/tuxcare-team-identifies-cve-2021-38604-a-new-vulnerability-in-glibc · [email protected]https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GYEXYM37RCJWJ6B5KQUYQI4NZBDDYSXP/ · [email protected]https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-24 · [email protected]https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210909-0005/ · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28213 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4cc79c217744743077bf7a0ec5e0a4318f1e6641 · [email protected]https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b805aebd42364fe696e417808a700fdb9800c9e8 · [email protected]https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html · [email protected]https://blog.tuxcare.com/cve/tuxcare-team-identifies-cve-2021-38604-a-new-vulnerability-in-glibc · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GYEXYM37RCJWJ6B5KQUYQI4NZBDDYSXP/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-24 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210909-0005/ · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28213 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4cc79c217744743077bf7a0ec5e0a4318f1e6641 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b805aebd42364fe696e417808a700fdb9800c9e8 · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html · af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5ehttps://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-831302.html · 0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 12 AUG 15:43Z
    In librt in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) through 2.34, sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mq_notify.c mishandles certain NOTIFY_REMOVED data, leading to a NULL pointer…
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