Bug 1620290 (CVE-2018-14621) - CVE-2018-14621 libtirpc: Infinite loop in EMFILE case in svc_vc.c
Summary: CVE-2018-14621 libtirpc: Infinite loop in EMFILE case in svc_vc.c
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2018-14621
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Blocks: 1620296
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Reported: 2018-08-22 21:46 UTC by Laura Pardo
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:56 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: libtirpc 1.0.2-rc2
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An infinite loop vulnerability was found in libtirpc. 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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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:36:28 UTC
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Description Laura Pardo 2018-08-22 21:46:07 UTC 
A flaw was found in libtirpc before version 1.0.2-rc2. With the port to poll, and endless loop can be created when running out of file descriptors.


References:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=968175

Upstream Patch:
http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=commit;h=fce98161d9815ea016855d9f00274276452c2c4b
Comment 1 Doran Moppert 2018-08-23 02:55:52 UTC 
This was introduced with the port to using poll() instead of select() around 0.3.3.  Prior versions use a different strategy when EMFILE/ENFILE is hit:  the "most idle" connection is dropped before retrying.
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