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CVE-2018-14621
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2018-08-30T13:29:00.487 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:41:18.513

Summary

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.

Affected products

libtirpc_project — libtirpc

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