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.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2017-06-12T13:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T14:02:37.523Z

Reserved: 2017-06-12T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2014-9984

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-12T13:29:00.183

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2014-9984

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2017-06-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2014-9984 - Bugzilla