CVE-2021-35942

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.

CVSS breakdown

Affected products

• Debian / debian_linux10.0 – 10.0
• gnu / glibc2.31
• NetApp / active_iq_unified_manager
• NetApp / e-series_santricity_os_controller11.0 – 11.70.1
• NetApp / hci_management_node
• NetApp / ONTAP Select Deploy administration utility
• NetApp / solidfire

References

• MISChttps://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Security%20Exceptions
• MISChttps://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28011
• MISChttps://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=5adda61f62b77384718b4c0d8336ade8f2b4b35c
• MISChttps://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210827-0005/
• MISChttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-24
• MAILING_LISThttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00021.html