Security advisory

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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-8804",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-8804",
    "summary": "The xdr_bytes and xdr_string functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.25 mishandle failures of buffer deserialization, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption if an overcommit setting is not used) via a crafted UDP packet to port 111, a related issue to CVE-2017-8779. NOTE: [Information provided from upstream and references",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-8804",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                        "introduced": "2.25"
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                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
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            "glibc-2.25"
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          "database_specific": {
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
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                      {
                        "introduced": "2.25"
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                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.25"
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          "versions": [
            "2.25",
            "glibc-2.25"
          ],
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:48.162502558Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/228",
        "https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00128.html",
        "https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00129.html",
        "https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037559#c7",
        "https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21461",
        "https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00105.html"
      ],
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    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2017-8804",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 436702,
  "published_at": "2017-05-07T18:29:00.157+00:00"
}