CVE-2026-89092 Affecting glibc package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.27% (17th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2404-GLIBC-19785393
  • published25 Sept 2026
  • disclosed11 Sept 2026

Introduced: 11 Sep 2026

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How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Ubuntu:24.04 glibc.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream glibc package and not the glibc package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:24.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

The nscd service in the GNU C Library 2.3.4 onwards may crash due to a stack overflow when a malicious DNS server returns too large a response for a DNS query, resulting in degraded DNS resolution for the system.

Exploitation of this bug needs a system that has nscd enabled and using an untrusted DNS server for name resolution, with the compromised DNS server being capable of processing records large enough to result in a stack overflow in an nscd thread stack.  During experimentation, bind 9 was unable to handle large records, but that could change in future or with a different name server.  In typical installations, nscd is executed in an isolated context as its own user without a shell, due to which any compromise of that service is isolated.

There is a remote possibility of nscd cache corruption if an attacker manages to get the stack pointer into a desired point in the heap, potentially resulting in other caches in nscd being overwritten with corrupt data through the stack overflow, until the buggy code path eventually results in a crash.

Finally, a crash in nscd may result in performance degradation when resolving names, but it does not result in a denial of service.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1