vulnerability
Ubuntu: USN-6762-1 (CVE-2014-9984): GNU C Library vulnerabilities
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
---|---|---|---|---|
8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jun 12, 2017 | May 3, 2024 | Nov 27, 2024 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jun 12, 2017
Added
May 3, 2024
Modified
Nov 27, 2024
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
ubuntu-pro-upgrade-libc6

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