CVE-2021-27645

LOW2.5EPSS 0.04%
Published: 2/24/2021Modified: 4/28/2026

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.

Affected packages (1)

CVSS scores

SourceVersionSeverityVector
osvCVSS 3.1LOW2.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References (1)