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glibc — security advisory
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.
- Products
- glibc
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- 2.31-10
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-27645
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 30 Oct 2026, 16:20 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2021-27645
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.31-10
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.31-10
glibc
Fixed versions: 2.31-10
Complete source record
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