CVE-2017-8804
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 7, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- May 7, 2017
Description
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
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037559#c7
- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00105.html
- 98339vdb-entry
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21461
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/05/2
- SUSE-SU-2018:0565vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2018:0494vendor-advisory
- SUSE-SU-2018:0451vendor-advisory
- https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00128.html
- https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00129.html
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/228
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