Advisories ยป MGASA-2021-0138

Updated glibc packages fix a security vulnerability

Publication date: 17 Mar 2021
Modification date: 17 Mar 2021
Type: security
Affected Mageia releases : 8
CVE: CVE-2021-27645

Description

Updated glibc packages fix a security vulnerability:

The nameserver caching daemon (nscd), 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 (CVE-2021-27645).
                

References

SRPMS

8/core