Bug 2109352 (CVE-2021-46828)

Summary: CVE-2021-46828 libtirpc: DoS vulnerability with lots of connections
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Avinash Hanwate <ahanwate>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Zhi Li <yieli>
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Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: kyoshida, steved, yieli
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: libtirpc 1.3.3rc1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was found in libtirpc. This flaw allows a remote attacker to exhaust the file descriptors of a process that uses libtirpc due to mishandling idle TCP connections. This issue leads to a svc_run infinite loop without accepting new connections.
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Bug Depends On: 1940341, 2109364, 2109403, 2109404, 2109405, 2118157    
Bug Blocks: 2109353    

Description Avinash Hanwate 2022-07-21 03:36:31 UTC
In libtirpc before 1.3.3rc1, remote attackers could exhaust the file descriptors of a process that uses libtirpc because idle TCP connections are mishandled. This can, in turn, lead to an svc_run infinite loop without accepting new connections.

http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=commit;h=86529758570cef4c73fb9b9c4104fdc510f701ed

Comment 1 Sandipan Roy 2022-07-21 04:35:45 UTC
Created libtirpc tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2109364]

Comment 4 Zhi Li 2022-09-23 12:44:57 UTC
I will take it since I have processed the duplicated one bz2118157, close as duplicated.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 2118157 ***

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2022-11-15 11:07:10 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2022:8400 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8400