CVE-1999-0199
criticalmanual/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, whi…
Vendor / product: Gnu — glibc
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.
CVSS
9.8
9.8 (CVSS v3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Severity source: NVD CVSS v3.1 (nvd@nist.gov)
Timeline (UTC)
Published: 2020-10-06 13:15
Modified: 2026-09-25 20:10
NVD status: Modified
Last synced 2 days ago
Verified against the source API 2026-10-27 07:06 UTC
Exploitation
Not listed in CISA KEV (as of last catalog sync)
Absence from KEV does not mean a CVE is not exploited. Exploitation status: unknown (no authoritative evidence in our sources).
Affected products
gnu / glibc <2.2
Weakness classification (CWE)
Source: NVD / CISA. “NVD-CWE-Other” and “NVD-CWE-noinfo” mean NVD could not assign a specific weakness.
Mitigation & advisories
Vendor advisory: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.tar.gz
Vendor advisory: https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.tar.gz
References
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.tar.gz cve@mitre.org
- https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/2864e767053317538feafa815046fff89e5a16be#diff-94e8c... cve@mitre.org
- https://www.cee.studio/tdelete.html cve@mitre.org
- https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.2.tar.gz af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://github.com/bminor/glibc/commit/2864e767053317538feafa815046fff89e5a16be#diff-94e8c... af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
- https://www.cee.studio/tdelete.html af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Data sources
NVD CVE API 2.0 — fetched 2026-10-27 07:06 UTC · record ↗