Name | CVE-2014-9984 |
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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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glibc (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 2.19-18+deb8u14 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 2.24-11+deb9u1 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 2.24-11+deb9u7 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 2.28-10+deb10u4 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.31-13+deb11u11 | fixed |
| bullseye (security) | 2.31-13+deb11u10 | fixed |
| bookworm | 2.36-9+deb12u9 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 2.36-9+deb12u7 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 2.40-3 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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eglibc | source | wheezy | (not affected) | | | |
eglibc | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
glibc | source | (unstable) | 2.19-14 | | | |
Notes
[wheezy] - eglibc <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
Upstream bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16695
Fixed by: https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;a=commitdiff;h=c44496df2f090a56d3bf75df930592dac6bba46f