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Here's two: CVE-2021-33574, CVE-2023-6705. The former had to be fixed in glibc, illustrating that proper usage of POSIX concurrency primitives does nothing when the rest of the ecosystem is a minefield of memory safety issues. There are some good citations on page 6 of this NSA Software Memory Safety overview in case you're interested://media.defense.gov/2022/Nov/10/2003112742/-1/-1/0/CSI_SOFTWARE_MEMORY_SAFETY.PDF


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