CVE-2018-14621CWE-835

An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1.0.2-rc2

Medium · published August 30, 2018

CVSS v3.0
5.3
EPSS
2%
Percentile
82.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
5.3 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.02262 · 82.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-835 · Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')
Published
2018-08-30T13:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 30 AUG 13:00Z
    An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1.0.2-rc2
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