Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU42857

Resource management error in GNU C Library (glibc) - CVE-2011-4609

Published: May 2, 2013 / Updated: August 11, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU42857

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2011-4609

CWE-ID: CWE-399

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

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.

Affected software

GNU C Library (glibc)
Amazon Linux AMI

How to mitigate CVE-2011-4609

Install update from vendor's website.

External References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767299

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