CVE-2011-4609

medium

Published 2013-05-02 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

5.0

Description

The svc_run function in the RPC implementation in glibc before 2.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of RPC connections.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
gnu	glibc	`{"endIncluding":"2.14"}`
gnu	glibc	`2.0`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.2`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.3`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.4`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.5`
gnu	glibc	`2.0.6`
gnu	glibc	`2.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.1`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.1.6`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.2`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.3`
gnu	glibc	`2.1.9`
gnu	glibc	`2.13`

References

CWEs

CWE-399

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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