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CVE-2014-9761

glibc: Unbounded stack allocation in nan* functions

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

5.1

CVSS 2.0

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Published · May 19, 2014

Updated · November 21, 2025

Description

A stack overflow vulnerability was found in nan* functions that could cause applications, which process long strings with the nan function, to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code.

CVSS score applicability

The CVSS score(s) listed for this vulnerability do not reflect the associated product's status, and are included for informational purposes to better understand the severity of this vulnerability.

Mitigation

Do not use any applications which call the affected nan* functions. These functions are used only very rarely.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 2.0 · 5.1
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWE not specified