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HistoryMay 07, 2017 - 6:00 p.m.

CVE-2017-8804

2017-05-0718:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org

7.7 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.551 Medium

EPSS

Percentile

97.7%

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