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CVE-1999-0199

9.8 criticalEPSS 2.4%

Critical (9.8) in gnu glibc. EPSS 2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
2.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 84% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-252
Published
Modified
Record from
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Affected

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