🛡️ CVE-2024-33601
🟠 CVSS 7.3 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-617 NVD
7.3
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache uses xmalloc or xrealloc and these functions may terminate the process due to a memory allocation failure resulting in a denial of service to the clients. The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.3
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
CWE CWE-617
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-06
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-05-12
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux
glibc 2.15 2.40
h300s-firmware
h410c-firmware
h410s-firmware
h500s-firmware
h610c-firmware
h610s-firmware
h615c-firmware
h700s-firmware
hci-bootstrap-os

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