CVE-2011-4609 — Glibc vulnerability

CWE-3996 documents6 sources
Severity
5.0MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 35.22%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
GNU Glibc
Timeline
PublishedMay 2
Latest updateMay 17

Description

The svc_run function in the RPC implementation in glibc before 2.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of RPC connections.

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/C:N/I:N/A:PExploitability: 10.0 | Impact: 2.9

Affected Packages1 packages

▶NVDgnu/glibc2.14+14

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-crf6-458w-xw5q: The svc_run function in the RPC implementation in glibc before 2↗2022-05-17
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CVEList
CVE-2011-4609: The svc_run function in the RPC implementation in glibc before 2↗2013-05-02
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Ubuntu
GNU C Library vulnerabilities↗2012-03-09
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Red Hat
glibc: svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept() fails with EMFILE error↗2011-05-05
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💬Community

1
Bugzilla
CVE-2011-4609 glibc: svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept() fails with EMFILE error↗2011-12-13
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CVE-2011-4609 — GNU Glibc vulnerability | cvebase