CVE-2014-9984

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.

References

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=c44496df2f090a56d3bf75df930592dac6bba46f

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16695

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Sep/7

https://seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Jun/14

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99071

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Sep/7

http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2019/Jun/18

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154361/Cisco-Device-Hardcoded-Credentials-GNU-glibc-BusyBox.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153278/WAGO-852-Industrial-Managed-Switch-Series-Code-Execution-Hardcoded-Credentials.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3