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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2014-9984): GNU C Library vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2014-9984): GNU C Library vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/12/2017
Created
05/03/2024
Added
05/03/2024
Modified
05/03/2024

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(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libc6

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