Security Advisory

CVE-2021-27645

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2021-02-24 00:00:00
Last updated 2025-06-09 14:58:23
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.