What is GHSA-7hm4-28mg-fmp9?

GHSA-7hm4-28mg-fmp9 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. manual/search.texi in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.2 lacks a statement about the...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-7hm4-28mg-fmp9 cover?

GHSA-7hm4-28mg-fmp9 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-1999-0199. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-7hm4-28mg-fmp9?

GHSA-7hm4-28mg-fmp9 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-7hm4-28mg-fmp9CriticalCVSS 9.8

manual/search.texi in the GNU C Library (aka glibc) before 2.2 lacks a statement about the...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

April 21, 2022

Last Modified

September 25, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-1999-0199 →

📋 Description

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.

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-1999-0199
https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/2864e767053317538feafa815046fff89e5a16be#diff-94e8c502f255fdfc346df0e29fd4ef40
https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.tar.gz
https://www.cee.studio/tdelete.html
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7hm4-28mg-fmp9