CVE-2018-14621

Summary

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.

Affected Software

Weaknesses

• CWE-835: CWE-835

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional 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

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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