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Mageia 8: 2021-0138 Critical: Glibc Denial Of Service Threat

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Calendar Grey March 17, 2021
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Recently released glibc updates for Mageia tackle significant risks of service interruptions on local machines caused by a vulnerability.
Updated glibc packages fix a security vulnerability: The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), when processing a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free, potential...

Summary

Updated glibc packages fix a security vulnerability:
The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), 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 (CVE-2021-27645).

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28587

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27645

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical glibc service degradation nscd mageia

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/glibc-2.32-15.mga8

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Publication date: 17 Mar 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0138.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-27645

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service critical glibc service degradation nscd mageia

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