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.
- Affected products
- Glibc
- Gnu Glibc
- < 2.2
- Fix
- Available
- CVSS 3.1
- 9.8 CRITICAL
- EPSS
- 2.4% (82th percentile)
- Weakness
- CWE-252
- NVD status
- Modified
- Published
- 2020-10-06
CVE-1999-0199 at NVD
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