Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-33601
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products3
- azl3 glibc 2.38-11 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 glibc 2.35-7 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 glibc 2.35-7 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.38-11 |
| — | Security Update | 2.35-7 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-33601
- EchelonGraph score
- 7.5 HIGH
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache uses xmalloc or xrealloc and these functions may terminate the process due to a memory allocation failure resulting in a denial of service to the clients. The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.
Published by GNU C Library, the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-33601, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).