Improper Data Handling Affecting glibc package, versions [,2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-GLIBC-2319009
  • published14 Dec 2021
  • disclosed10 Apr 2019
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Apr 2019

CVE-2006-7254  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-19  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade glibc to version 2.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Data Handling. The nscd daemon in the GNU C Library (glibc) before version 2.5 does not close incoming client sockets if they cannot be handled by the daemon, allowing local users to carry out a denial of service attack on the daemon.

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