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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-46828: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2021-46828: Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/20/2022
Created
04/09/2024
Added
03/26/2024
Modified
04/09/2024

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.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-libtirpc

References

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