Bug 1698738 (CVE-2006-7254) - CVE-2006-7254 glibc: Not closing unhadleable client sockets due to nscd daemon leads to DoS.
Summary: CVE-2006-7254 glibc: Not closing unhadleable client sockets due to nscd daemo...
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2006-7254
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1698739 1698740
Blocks: 1699295
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Reported: 2019-04-11 07:05 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2021-02-16 22:06 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: glibc 2.5
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Last Closed: 2019-04-17 04:22:13 UTC
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Sourceware 2498 0 None None None 2019-04-30 10:12:30 UTC

Description Marian Rehak 2019-04-11 07:05:28 UTC 
The nscd daemon in the GNU C Library (glibc) before version 2.5 does not close incoming client sockets if they cannot be handled by the daemon, allowing local users to carry out a denial of service attack on the daemon.
Comment 1 Marian Rehak 2019-04-11 07:05:44 UTC 
Created glibc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-28 [bug 1698739]
Affects: fedora-29 [bug 1698740]
Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2019-04-17 04:22:16 UTC 
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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2498
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