vulnerability
VMware Photon OS: CVE-2018-14621
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C) | Aug 30, 2018 | Jan 20, 2025 | Jul 10, 2025 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Aug 30, 2018
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Jul 10, 2025
Description
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.
Solution
vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
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