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Debian: CVE-2021-27645: glibc -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2021-27645: glibc -- security update

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/24/2021
Created
10/20/2022
Added
10/20/2022
Modified
10/20/2022

Description

The nameserver caching daemon (nscd) in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.29 through 2.33, when processing a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free, potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the local system. This is related to netgroupcache.c.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-glibc

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