CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-38604
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-08-12
- Last modified
- 2026-10-14
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 3.1 (134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0)
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
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.
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc (<= 2.34)
• fedoraproject fedora 35
• oracle communications cloud native core binding support function 22.1.3
• oracle communications cloud native core network function cloud native environment 22.1.0
• oracle communications cloud native core network repository function 22.1.2
• oracle communications cloud native core network repository function 22.2.0
• oracle communications cloud native core security edge protection proxy 22.1.1
• oracle communications cloud native core unified data repository 22.2.0
• oracle enterprise operations monitor 4.3
• oracle enterprise operations monitor 4.4
• oracle enterprise operations monitor 5.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- https://blog.tuxcare.com/cve/tuxcare-team-identifies-cve-2021-38604-a-new-vulnerability-in-glibc Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GYEXYM37RCJWJ6B5KQUYQI4NZBDDYSXP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-24 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210909-0005/ Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28213 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4cc79c217744743077bf7a0ec5e0a4318f1e6641 sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b805aebd42364fe696e417808a700fdb9800c9e8 sourceware.org
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://blog.tuxcare.com/cve/tuxcare-team-identifies-cve-2021-38604-a-new-vulnerability-in-glibc Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/GYEXYM37RCJWJ6B5KQUYQI4NZBDDYSXP/ lists.fedoraproject.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202208-24 Third Party Advisory
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20210909-0005/ Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28213 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=4cc79c217744743077bf7a0ec5e0a4318f1e6641 sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=b805aebd42364fe696e417808a700fdb9800c9e8 sourceware.org
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujul2022.html Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-398330.html cert-portal.siemens.com
- https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-831302.html cert-portal.siemens.com