epmd permanent DoS via EMFILE on accept(2) in erts

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CVE-2026-42792 epmd permanent DoS via EMFILE on accept(2) in erts

Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions vulnerability in Erlang OTP erts epmd allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to permanently terminate the Erlang Port Mapper Daemon epmd via connection slot exhaustion. The doaccept function in erts/epmd/src/epmdsrv.c calls epmdcleanupexit when accep...

CVE-2026-16730

dbus-broker is affected. When the process file-descriptor limit is reached, EMFILE/ENFILE errors during peer setup (notably SO_PEERPIDFD) are treated as fatal, causing the broker to exit. A local attacker who can open many connections to the user session bus can trigger this and deny service to t...

Libtirpc: Denial of Service

Background Libtirpc is a port of Sun's Transport-Independent RPC library to Linux. Description Currently svcrun does not handle poll timeout and rendezvousrequest does not handle EMFILE error returned from accept2 as it used to. These two missing functionality were removed by commit b2c9430f46c4...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: nodejs-graceful-fs-2.0.0-2.fc18

Just like node.js' fs module, but it does an incremental back-off when EMFI LE is encountered. Useful in asynchronous situations where one needs to try to o pen lots and lots of files...

glibc: svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept() fails with EMFILE error

A denial of service flaw was found in the remote procedure call RPC implementation in glibc. A remote attacker able to open a large number of connections to an RPC service that is using the RPC implementation from glibc, could use this flaw to make that service use an excessive amount of CPU time...

glibc: svc_run() produces high cpu usage when accept() fails with EMFILE error

A denial of service flaw was found in the remote procedure call RPC implementation in glibc. A remote attacker able to open a large number of connections to an RPC service that is using the RPC implementation from glibc, could use this flaw to make that service use an excessive amount of CPU time...

bind security and bug fix update

20:9.2.4-25.el3 - security fix for remote DoS CVE-2009-0696, 514292 20:9.2.4-24.el3 - abort timeout queries to reduce the number of open UDP sockets 498164 - handle EMFILE error from accept gracefully 498164...