CVE-2011-4609: GNU Glibc

Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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 products

• GNU Glibc: up to and including 2.14; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.0.4 only; …

Published 2013-05-02. Last modified 2026-06-16.