VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2014-9984
CVSS score9.8 CRITICAL
EPSS probability4.48%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-06-12
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer