CVE-2014-9984

critical
Published 2017-06-12 · Modified 2026-05-13
CVSS v3
9.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
7.5
VIR risk
9.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
97%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9984

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16695

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2014-9984.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed2.19-14
debian debianbullseyefixed2.19-14
debian debianforkyfixed2.19-14
debian debiansidfixed2.19-14
debian debiantrixiefixed2.19-14

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
gnuglibc{"endIncluding":"2.19"}

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.