PT-2018-12621 · Libtirpc+2 · Libtirpc+2

Laura Pardo · Published 2017-07-06 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2018-14621

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions libtirpc versions prior to 1.0.2-rc2

Description An infinite loop issue was discovered, which occurs when the server exhausts its file descriptors, causing it to enter an infinite loop and consume a large amount of CPU time. This results in a denial of service to other clients until the server is restarted.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.0.2-rc2, update to version 1.0.2-rc2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Infinite Loop

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-835

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2017-1816

CVE-2018-14621

SUSE-SU-2018:3146-1

SUSE-SU-2018_3146-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Suse

Libtirpc

References · 12

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14621 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14621 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2018:3146-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-14621 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968175 · Patch
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/968175 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106517 · Note
• https://bugzilla.suse.com/1106519 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14621 · Note
• https://suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-14622 · Note
• https://suse.com/support/update/announcement/2018/suse-su-20183146-1 · Note
• http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fce98161d9815ea016855d9f00274276452c2c4b · Note