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High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published May 7, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-8804

CVE-2017-8804

Description

The xdr_bytes and xdr_string functions in the GNU C Library (aka glibc or libc6) 2.25 mishandle failures of buffer deserialization, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (virtual memory allocation, or memory consumption if an overcommit setting is not used) via a crafted UDP packet to port 111, a related issue to CVE-2017-8779. NOTE: [Information provided from upstream and references

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