CVE-2018-14622 Information

Description

A null-pointer dereference vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 0.3.3-rc3. The return value of makefd_xprt() was not checked in all instances which could lead to a crash when the server exhausted the maximum number of available file descriptors. A remote attacker could cause an rpc-based application to crash by flooding it with new connections.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/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=1c77f7a869bdea2a34799d774460d1f9983d45f0 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:1991 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968175 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14622 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/08/msg00034.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3759-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3759-2/

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