CVE-2014-9984

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.

Affected products

Alt Linux, Suse, Ubuntu, Glibc

Gnu Glibc

≤ 2.19

Fix

Available

CVSS 3.0

9.8 CRITICAL

EPSS

4.3% (91th percentile)

Weakness

CWE-119

NVD status

Modified

Published

2017-06-12