CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-89092

MediumCVSS 4.2
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.24%

15th percentile - higher than 15% of all known CVEs

Summary

The nscd service in the GNU C Library 2.3.4 onwards may crash due to a stack overflow when a malicious DNS server returns too large a response for a DNS query, resulting in degraded DNS resolution for the system. Exploitation requires nscd enabled and using an untrusted DNS server. There is also a remote possibility of nscd cache corruption.

Risk Assessment

A crash in nscd may result in performance degradation when resolving names, but it does not result in a denial of service. In rare cases, nscd cache corruption may occur, potentially affecting other caches.

Recommendation

Update the GNU C Library to a version containing the fix or disable the nscd service if not required. Avoid using untrusted DNS servers for name resolution.

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Original NVD description (English source)

The nscd service in the GNU C Library 2.3.4 onwards may crash due to a stack overflow when a malicious DNS server returns too large a response for a DNS query, resulting in degraded DNS resolution for the system. Exploitation of this bug needs a system that has nscd enabled and using an untrusted DNS server for name resolution, with the compromised DNS server being capable of processing records large enough to result in a stack overflow in an nscd thread stack.  During experimentation, bind 9 was unable to handle large records, but that could change in future or with a different name server.  In typical installations, nscd is executed in an isolated context as its own user without a shell, due to which any compromise of that service is isolated. There is a remote possibility of nscd cache corruption if an attacker manages to get the stack pointer into a desired point in the heap, potentially resulting in other caches in nscd being overwritten with corrupt data through the stack overflow, until the buggy code path eventually results in a crash. Finally, a crash in nscd may result in performance degradation when resolving names, but it does not result in a denial of service.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS