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low2.5

CVE-2021-27645

The nameserver caching daemon (nscd) in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.29 through 2.33, when processing a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due …

Impact

The nameserver caching daemon (nscd) in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.29 through 2.33, when processing a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free, potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the local system. This is related to netgroupcache.c.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
GnuGlibc
from 2.29 through 2.33
FedoraprojectFedora
Versions 33, 34
DebianDebian Linux
Version 10.0

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