Security Advisory

CVE-2005-3590

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2019-04-10 19:52:40
Last updated 2024-08-07 23:17:23
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The getgrouplist function in the GNU C library (glibc) before version 2.3.5, when invoked with a zero argument, writes to the passed pointer even if the specified array size is zero, leading to a buffer overflow and potentially allowing attackers to corrupt memory.