CVE-2021-3696 vulnerability in GNU and Other Products
Published on July 6, 2022
Weakness Type
What is a Memory Corruption Vulnerability?
The software writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Typically, this can result in corruption of data, a crash, or code execution. The software may modify an index or perform pointer arithmetic that references a memory location that is outside of the boundaries of the buffer. A subsequent write operation then produces undefined or unexpected results.
CVE-2021-3696 has been classified to as a Memory Corruption vulnerability or weakness.
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Exploit Probability
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