nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure
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cve-program · CVE-2024-33601
Publishednscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache uses xmalloc or xrealloc and these functions may terminate the process due to a memory allocation failure resulting in a denial of service to the clients. The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.
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- 6 May 2024 19:22:07 UTC
- Source modified
- 15 Oct 2026 00:40:38 UTC
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- 23 Oct 2026 15:48:27 UTC
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