VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2014-9984

critical
Published 2017-06-12 · Modified 2026-05-13
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CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4 NEW
—
not yet in upstream
VIR risk
9.8

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA
—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact
suse SUSE Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
— Affected —
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 2.19-14
sid Fixed 2.19-14
forky Fixed 2.19-14
bullseye Fixed 2.19-14
bookworm Fixed 2.19-14

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.19"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.