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Ubuntu: USN-5538-1 (CVE-2021-46828): libtirpc vulnerability

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Ubuntu: USN-5538-1 (CVE-2021-46828): libtirpc vulnerability

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
07/20/2022
Created
03/29/2023
Added
03/22/2023
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-libtirpc3

References

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