CVE-2018-14621

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Aug 30, 2018
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Jul 27, 2018

Description

An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1.0.2-rc2. With the port to using poll rather than select, exhaustion of file descriptors would cause the server to enter an infinite loop, consuming a large amount of CPU time and denying service to other clients until restarted.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.0	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-835

Affected Products

Product	Versions
libtirpc[UNKNOWN]	1.0.2-rc2Affected

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14621
http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fce98161d9815ea016855d9f00274276452c2c4b
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968175

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