CVE-2018-14621 — Infinite Loop in Project Libtirpc

CWE-835 — Infinite Loop7 documents6 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
CNA5.3
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.90%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
1
Libtirpc Project Libtirpc
Timeline
PublishedAug 30
Latest updateMay 13

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages1 packages

Patches

Patch: bugzilla.novell.com ↗Patch: bugzilla.redhat.com ↗Patch: bugzilla.novell.com ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

2
GHSA
GHSA-362j-4wp6-47gj: An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-14621: An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1↗2018-08-30
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Debian
CVE-2018-14621: libtirpc - An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1.0.2-rc2. W...↗2018
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Red Hat
libtirpc: Infinite loop in EMFILE case in svc_vc.c↗2016-03-03
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-14621 libtirpc: Infinite loop in EMFILE case in svc_vc.c↗2018-08-22
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-14622 libtirpc: Segmentation fault in makefd_xprt return value in svc_vc.c↗2018-08-22
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