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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-46828: Moderate: libtirpc security update (ALSA-2022-8400)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Jul 20, 2022
Added
Nov 18, 2022
Modified
Mar 31, 2026

Description

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.

Solutions

alma-upgrade-libtirpcalma-upgrade-libtirpc-devel
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