{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2021-02-24T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "glibc: Use-after-free in addgetnetgrentX function in netgroupcache.c",
    "id" : "1932589",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1932589"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "2.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-416",
  "details" : [ "The nameserver caching daemon (nscd) in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.29 through 2.33, when processing a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free, potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the local system. This is related to netgroupcache.c.", "The nameserver caching daemon (nscd) in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6), when processing a request for netgroup lookup, may crash due to a double-free, potentially resulting in degraded service or Denial of Service on the local system." ],
  "statement" : "This is a local crash in nscd causing a performance penalty. It is constrained by needing a netgroup request to have a response larger than 1K to cause the double-free crash. Therefore this is not a full denial of service.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-11-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:4358",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "glibc-0:2.28-164.el8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "release_date" : "2021-11-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:4358",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8",
    "package" : "glibc-0:2.28-164.el8"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "compat-glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "compat-glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "glibc",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-27645\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-27645" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2021-27645",
  "csaw" : false
}