Description
There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:
- The nscd service in the GNU C Library 2.3.4 onwards may crash due to a stack overflow when a malicious DNS
server returns too large a response for a DNS query, resulting in degraded DNS resolution for the system.
Exploitation of this bug needs a system that has nscd enabled and using an untrusted DNS server for name
resolution, with the compromised DNS server being capable of processing records large enough to result in
a stack overflow in an nscd thread stack. During experimentation, bind 9 was unable to handle large
records, but that could change in future or with a different name server. In typical installations, nscd
is executed in an isolated context as its own user without a shell, due to which any compromise of that
service is isolated. There is a remote possibility of nscd cache corruption if an attacker manages to get
the stack pointer into a desired point in the heap, potentially resulting in other caches in nscd being
overwritten with corrupt data through the stack overflow, until the buggy code path eventually results in
a crash. Finally, a crash in nscd may result in performance degradation when resolving names, but it does
not result in a denial of service. (CVE-2026-89092)
Solution
Update the glibc-2.44 library and its related packages to version 2.44-r8 or later.
Plugin Details
Risk Information
Vector: CVSS2#AV:A/AC:H/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/11/2026