# CVE-2018-14621: An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc before version 1.0.2-rc2.

- Severity: CVSS 5.3 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2018-08-30 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] libtirpc: 1.0.2-rc2

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on \[UNKNOWN\] libtirpc, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-14621
- http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=fce98161d9815ea016855d9f00274276452c2c4b
- https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968175

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