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CVE-2011-4609

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-05-02 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The svc_run function in the RPC implementation in glibc before 2.15 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU consumption) via a large number of RPC connections.

Affected products

• GNU C Library (glibc): through 2.14; 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.5 (+8)

References

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767299
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=767299

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