CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-8804
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-05-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-502
Description
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
Affected configurations
• gnu glibc 2.25
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-502 Deserialization of Untrusted Data weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00026.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00039.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00049.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/05/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98339 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037559#c7 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/228 seclists.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21461 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00128.html sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00129.html sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00105.html Issue Tracking, Patch
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00026.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00039.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00049.html lists.opensuse.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/05/2 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98339 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037559#c7 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/228 seclists.org
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21461 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00128.html sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00129.html sourceware.org
- https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00105.html Issue Tracking, Patch