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glibc security update

Type: advisorySources: OSV

The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. These APIs include such foundational facilities as open, read, write, malloc, printf, getaddrinfo, dlopen, pthread_create, crypt, login, exit and more. Security Fix(es): The nscd service in the GNU C Library 2.3.4 onwards may crash due to a stack overflow when a malicious DNS server returns too large a response for a DNS query, resulting in degraded DNS resolution for the system. Exploitation of this bug needs a system that has nscd enabled and using an untrusted DNS server for name resolution, with the compromised DNS server being capable of processing records large enough to result in a stack overflow in an nscd thread stack. During experimentation, bind 9 was unable to handle large records, but that could change in future or with a different name server. In typical installations, nscd is executed in an isolated context as its own user without a shell, due to which any compromise of that service is isolated. There is a remote possibility of nscd cache corruption if an attacker manages to get the stack pointer into a desired point in the heap, potentially resulting in other caches in nscd being overwritten with corrupt data through the stack overflow, until the buggy code path eventually results in a crash. Finally, a cr

Products
glibc
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
2.38-130.oe2403sp1
CVEs
CVE-2026-89092
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
30 Oct 2026, 20:39 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

glibc security update

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Oct 2026, 11:58 UTC

The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. These APIs include such foundational facilities as open, read, write, malloc, printf, getaddrinfo, dlopen, pthread_create, crypt, login, exit and more. Security Fix(es): The nscd service in the GNU C Library 2.3.4 onwards may crash due to a stack overflow when a malicious DNS server returns too large a response for a DNS query, resulting in degraded DNS resolution for the system. Exploitation of this bug needs a system that has nscd enabled and using an untrusted DNS server for name resolution, with the compromised DNS server being capable of processing records large enough to result in a stack overflow in an nscd thread stack. During experimentation, bind 9 was unable to handle large records, but that could change in future or with a different name server. In typical installations, nscd is executed in an isolated context as its own user without a shell, due to which any compromise of that service is isolated. There is a remote possibility of nscd cache corruption if an attacker manages to get the stack pointer into a desired point in the heap, potentially resulting in other caches in nscd being overwritten with corrupt data through the stack overflow, until the buggy code path eventually results in a crash. Finally, a cr

osv:OESA-2026-4281

glibc

Fixed versions: 2.38-130.oe2403sp1

Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/OESA-2026-4281",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "glibc security update",
    "summary": "The GNU C Library project provides the core libraries for the GNU system and GNU/Linux systems, as well as many other systems that use Linux as the kernel. These libraries provide critical APIs including ISO C11, POSIX.1-2008, BSD, OS-specific APIs and more. These APIs include such foundational facilities as open, read, write, malloc, printf, getaddrinfo, dlopen, pthread_create, crypt, login, exit and more. Security Fix(es): The nscd service in the GNU C Library 2.3.4 onwards may crash due to a stack overflow when a malicious DNS server returns too large a response for a DNS query, resulting in degraded DNS resolution for the system. Exploitation of this bug needs a system that has nscd enabled and using an untrusted DNS server for name resolution, with the compromised DNS server being capable of processing records large enough to result in a stack overflow in an nscd thread stack. During experimentation, bind 9 was unable to handle large records, but that could change in future or with a different name server. In typical installations, nscd is executed in an isolated context as its own user without a shell, due to which any compromise of that service is isolated. There is a remote possibility of nscd cache corruption if an attacker manages to get the stack pointer into a desired point in the heap, potentially resulting in other caches in nscd being overwritten with corrupt data through the stack overflow, until the buggy code path eventually results in a crash. Finally, a cr",
    "evidence": "osv:OESA-2026-4281",
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        "name": {
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        "prerequisites": [],
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    "severity": "medium",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L"
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              "libnsl-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.x86_64.rpm",
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              "glibc-debuginfo-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
              "glibc-debugsource-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
              "glibc-debugutils-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
              "glibc-devel-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
              "glibc-locale-archive-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
              "glibc-locale-source-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
              "glibc-nss-devel-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
              "libnsl-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
              "nscd-2.38-130.oe2403sp1.aarch64.rpm",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-16T12:15:08.080597886Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "upstream": [
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      ],
      "references": [
        "https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bulletins/detail/?id=openEuler-SA-2026-4281",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-89092"
      ],
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    },
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 340785,
  "published_at": "2026-10-16T11:58:54+00:00"
}