CVE-2017-8804

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

References

https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00105.html

https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00129.html

https://sourceware.org/legacy-ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00128.html

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21461

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q2/228

https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037559#c7

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/05/2

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00049.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00039.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00026.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3