UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9984

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-9984
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2014/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9984.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9984
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Published
2017-06-12T13:29:00Z
Modified
2025-07-18T16:43:08Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

nscd in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) before version 2.20 does not correctly compute the size of an internal buffer when processing netgroup requests, possibly leading to an nscd daemon crash or code execution as the user running nscd.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS / eglibc

Package

Name
eglibc
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/eglibc@2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm3?arch=source&distro=trusty/esm

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm3

Affected versions

2.*

2.17-93ubuntu4
2.18-0ubuntu1
2.18-0ubuntu2
2.18-0ubuntu4
2.18-0ubuntu5
2.18-0ubuntu6
2.18-0ubuntu7
2.19-0ubuntu2
2.19-0ubuntu3
2.19-0ubuntu4
2.19-0ubuntu5
2.19-0ubuntu6
2.19-0ubuntu6.1
2.19-0ubuntu6.3
2.19-0ubuntu6.4
2.19-0ubuntu6.5
2.19-0ubuntu6.6
2.19-0ubuntu6.7
2.19-0ubuntu6.8
2.19-0ubuntu6.9
2.19-0ubuntu6.10
2.19-0ubuntu6.11
2.19-0ubuntu6.13
2.19-0ubuntu6.14
2.19-0ubuntu6.15
2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm1
2.19-0ubuntu6.15+esm2

Ecosystem specific 

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        },
        {
            "binary_name": "libc-bin",
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        },
        {
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            "binary_name": "libc6-pic",
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            "binary_name": "libc6-prof",
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        {
            "binary_name": "libc6-udeb",
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        {
            "binary_name": "libc6-udeb-dbgsym",
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        {
            "binary_name": "libc6-x32-dbgsym",
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            "binary_name": "libnss-dns-udeb",
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            "binary_name": "libnss-files-udeb",
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    "availability": "Available with Ubuntu Pro (Infra-only): https://ubuntu.com/pro"
}