Denial of Service Vulnerability in glibc 2.25 (CVE-2017-8779)

CVE-2017-8804 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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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