CVEvulnerability

CVE-2003-0689

7.5 HIGH Published 2003-10-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2003-10-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

The getgrouplist function in GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and execute arbitrary code when a user is a member of a large number of groups, which can cause a buffer overflow.

Affected configurations

• redhat enterprise linux 2.1

References