vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2014-9984: glibc -- security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 12, 2017
Added
Jul 30, 2024
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

Description

nscd in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before version 2.20 does not correctly compute the size of an internal buffer when processing netgroup requests, possibly leading to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd.

Solution

debian-upgrade-glibc
Title
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