{"id":"CVE-2024-33601","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-33601","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:26:22.605Z","title":"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…","description":"nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure\n\nThe Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache uses xmalloc or\nxrealloc and these functions may terminate the process due to a memory\nallocation failure resulting in a denial of service to the clients.  The\nflaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd.\n\nThis vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.","published":"2024-05-06T20:15:12.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:32:04.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L"},"cwe":["CWE-617"],"affected":["gnu/glibc","debian/debian linux","netapp/h300s firmware","netapp/h500s firmware","netapp/h700s firmware","netapp/h410s firmware","netapp/h410c firmware","netapp/h610c firmware","netapp/h615c firmware","netapp/h610s firmware","netapp/hci bootstrap os"],"epss":{"score":0.01075,"percentile":0.64745,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.07%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/22/5","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00026.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0014/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18"},{"url":"https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2024-0007","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"3ff69d7a-14f2-4f67-a097-88dee7810d18"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/07/22/5","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2024/06/msg00026.html","tags":["Mailing List","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240524-0014/","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=blob;f=advisories/GLIBC-SA-2024-0007","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://cert-portal.siemens.com/productcert/html/ssa-082556.html","source":"0b142b55-0307-4c5a-b3c9-f314f3fb7c5e"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-33601","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}