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Vulnerabilities / CVE-2014-9984

critical

CVE-2014-9984

glibc: nscd buffer manipulation vulnerability could lead to code execution or crash

Published Modified CWE 119
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Red Hat9.8CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, Red Hat. Rated lower by Ubuntu (medium).

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.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
debian 11glibc2.19-14
debian 12glibc2.19-14
debian 13glibc2.19-14
debian 14glibc2.19-14
echoglibc2.19-14
root.io debian 11rootio-glibc2.19-14
root.io debian 12rootio-glibc2.19-14
root.io debian 13rootio-glibc2.19-14
ubuntu 14.04-ESMeglibc2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm3

References

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