CVE-2018-14621

Publication date 30 August 2018

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
libtirpc	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
libtirpc	Other: http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=commit;h=fce98161d9815ea016855d9f00274276452c2c4b

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H