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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-27645: Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4358)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-27645: Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2021-4358)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/24/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

The nameserver caching daemon (nscd) in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.29 through 2.33, 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. This is related to netgroupcache.c.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-compat-libpthread-nonshared
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-benchtests
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-nss-devel
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-static
  • alma-upgrade-glibc-utils
  • alma-upgrade-nss_hesiod

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