CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2003-0689

Published: Oct 20, 2003 | Modified: Sep 10, 2008

CVSS 3.x

N/A

Source:

NVD

CVSS 2.x

7.5 HIGH

RedHat/V2

RedHat/V3

Ubuntu

Additional information

NVD	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2003-0689
CWE	https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/NVD-Other.html

The getgrouplist function in GNU libc (glibc) 2.2.4 and earlier allows attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) and execute arbitrary code when a user is a member of a large number of groups, which can cause a buffer overflow.

Affected Software

Name	Vendor	Start Version	End Version
Enterprise_linux	Redhat	2.1 (including)	2.1 (including)

References

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