CVE-2017-8804
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-8804
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-8804.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-8804
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2017-05-07T18:29:00.157Z
- Modified
- 2026-08-28T08:19:56.905291Z
- Severity
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- 7.5 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
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The xdrbytes and xdrstring 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
- References
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- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00049.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98339
- 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
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/05/2
- 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
Affected packages
Git / github.com/bminor/glibc
Git / sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://sourceware.org/git/glibc.git
- Events
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Introduceddb0242e3023436757bbc7c488a779e6e3343db04Last affecteddb0242e3023436757bbc7c488a779e6e3343db04
- Database specific
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Show details
{ "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gnu:glibc:2.25:*:*:*:*:*:*:*", "extracted_events": [ { "introduced": "2.25" }, { "last_affected": "2.25" } ], "source": "CPE_STRING" }