UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9984

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9984

    Published: 12 Jun 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2014-9984
    Aliases:
    USN-6762-1

    Summary:

    Details: nscd in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before version 2.20 does not correctly compute the size of an internal buffer when processing netgroup requests, possibly leading to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9984, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-9984, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6762-1

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: eglibc

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]+esm3?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm3

    Affected versions

    2.17-93ubuntu4

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High