Vulnerability Details CVE-2018-14621
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.003
EPSS Ranking 56.5%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 5.3
CVSS v2 Score 7.8
References
- http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fce98161d9815ea016855d9f00274276452c2c4b
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968175
- 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
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14621
Products affected by CVE-2018-14621
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.0.10
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.0.9
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.1.10
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.1.11
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.1.8
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.1.9
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.2.0
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.2.1
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.2.2
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.2.3
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.2.4
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.2.5
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.2.6
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.3.0
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.3.1
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.3.2
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:0.3.3
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:1.0.1
-
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:1.0.2