CVE-2018-14621

CVSS V2 High 7.8 CVSS V3 High 7.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2018-14621
  • Assigner
  • secalert@redhat.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2018-08-30T13:29:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2019-10-09T23:35:02
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-835 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/835.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR 1.0.1
cpe:2.3:a:libtirpc_project:libtirpc:1.0.2:rc1:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 7.8
  • Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 10
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • NETWORK
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • NONE
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 7.5
  • Base Severity
  • HIGH
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14621 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968175 Issue Tracking Patch Third Party Advisory
http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=commit;h=fce98161d9815ea016855d9f00274276452c2c4b Patch Third Party Advisory
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-14621
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-14621
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-05-10 17:06:24 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-03 11:37:01 2018-08-30T13:29Z 2018-08-30T13:29:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-03 11:37:01 2019-10-09T23:35:02 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-03 11:37:01 Modified Vulnerability Status updated