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CVE-2021-27645
Published: Feb 24, 2021
Modified: Jun 9, 2025
PUBLISHED
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.
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References
FEDORA-2021-6749bfcfd9
vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2021-2ba993d6c5
vendor-advisory
GLSA-202107-07
vendor-advisory
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