Huawei EulerOS: Security Advisory for libtirpc (EulerOS-SA-2021-1090)

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The vulnerability of the makefd_xprt() function in the RPC protocol delivery library allows a attacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the makefdxprt function in the RPC service library libtirpc is related to the assignment of a null pointer. The return value of makefdxprt is not checked for all possible cases. Exploiting this vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a service failure for an applicatio...

Denial Of Service (DoS)

libtirpc.so is vulnerable to denial of service DoS. The library does not properly check if the returned value from the makefdxprt function is null, allowing a malicious user to cause a null-pointer dereference if all file descriptors are exhausted, crashing the application...

libtirpc: Segmentation fault in makefd_xprt return value in svc_vc.c

A null-pointer dereference vulnerability was found in libtirpc. The return value of makefdxprt was not checked in all instances, which could lead to a crash when the server exhausted the maximum number of available file descriptors. A remote attacker could cause an rpc-based application to crash ...