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CVE-2021-35942
critical
Description
The wordexp function in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) through 2.33 may crash or read arbitrary memory in parse_param (in posix/wordexp.c) when called with an untrusted, crafted pattern, potentially resulting in a denial of service or disclosure of information. This occurs because atoi was used but strtoul should have been used to ensure correct calculations.
References
https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Security%20Exceptions
https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5adda61f62b77384718b4c0d8336ade8f2b4b35c
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28011
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0005/
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-24
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html