Security Advisory

CVE-2018-14621

5.3
MEDIUM

Vulnerability 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.
Published Date August 30, 2018
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory