CVE-2024-33600 Information

Description

nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response

If the Name Service Cache Daemon’s (nscd) cache fails to add a not-found netgroup response to the cache the client request can result in a null pointer dereference. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd.

This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.

Reference

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2024-0006