CVE-2017-8804
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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
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00026.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00039.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-02/msg00049.html
- https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1037559#c7
- https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21461
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