Name | CVE-2021-27645 |
Description | 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more) |
NVD severity | low |
Debian Bugs | 983479 |
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
---|---|---|---|
glibc (PTS) | stretch | 2.24-11+deb9u4 | vulnerable |
stretch (security) | 2.24-11+deb9u1 | vulnerable | |
buster | 2.28-10+deb10u1 | vulnerable | |
bullseye | 2.31-13+deb11u3 | fixed | |
bookworm, sid | 2.33-7 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
glibc | source | (unstable) | 2.31-10 | 983479 |
[buster] - glibc <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[stretch] - glibc <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27462
Introduced by: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=745664bd798ec8fd50438605948eea594179fba1 (glibc-2.29)
Fixed by: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=dca565886b5e8bd7966e15f0ca42ee5cff686673
Introducing commit present in Debian since 2.28-1 with addition of
https://salsa.debian.org/glibc-team/glibc/-/commit/aea56157b456d4d9bef337d0149e952a41a7d919