CVE-2024-33601 (GCVE-0-2024-33601)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-05-06 19:22 – Updated: 2025-03-18 13:55
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Title
nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure
Summary
nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache uses xmalloc or xrealloc and these functions may terminate the process due to a memory allocation failure resulting in a denial of service to the clients. The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.
Severity ?
7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
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The GNU C Library glibc Affected: 2.15 , < 2.40 (custom)
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