CVE-2024-33601: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• GNU Glibc: from 2.15, before 2.40 (fixed in 2.40)
• Netapp h300s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h410s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h500s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h610c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h610s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h615c Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp h700s Firmware: affected versions not specified
• Netapp Hci Bootstrap OS: affected versions not specified

Published 2024-05-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.