CVE-2021-27645

low-risk
Published 2021-02-24

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.04% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
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CVSS 2.5/10 Low
LOCAL / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (4)

Affected Vendors

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low-risk
Severity 6/34 · Minimal
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 10/34 · Low