Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Aug 30, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-14621
CVE-2018-14621
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.
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Affected products
4- Range: <1.0.2-rc2
- osv-coords3 versionspkg:rpm/suse/libtirpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libtirpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2011%20SP4pkg:rpm/suse/libtirpc&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Software%20Development%20Kit%2011%20SP4
< 0.2.1-1.13.6.1+ 2 more
- (no CPE)range: < 0.2.1-1.13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.2.1-1.13.6.1
- (no CPE)range: < 0.2.1-1.13.6.1
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References
3- bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cginvdIssue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
- git.linux-nfs.orgnvd
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