Ubuntu: USN-5538-1 (CVE-2021-46828): libtirpc vulnerability
4
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
07/20/2022
03/29/2023
03/22/2023
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
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