CVE-2024-33602 is a high-severity Return of Pointer Value Outside of Expected Range (CWE-466) vulnerability in Gnu Glibc. Its CVSS base score is 7.4 (High).
Operationally, ranked in the top 27.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache can corrupt memory when the NSS callback does not store all strings in the provided buffer. The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15…
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when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.