CVE-2018-14621 Information

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:H

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.5