| Revision Date: | 2017-06-16 | Version: | 641 |
| Title: | RHSA-2017:1267: rpcbind security update (Important) |
| Description: | The rpcbind utility is a server that converts Remote Procedure Call (RPC) program numbers into universal addresses. It must be running on the host to be able to make RPC calls on a server on that machine.
Security Fix(es):
It was found that due to the way rpcbind uses libtirpc (libntirpc), a memory leak can occur when parsing specially crafted XDR messages. An attacker sending thousands of messages to rpcbind could cause its memory usage to grow without bound, eventually causing it to be terminated by the OOM killer. (CVE-2017-8779)
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| Family: | unix | Class: | patch |
| Status: | | Reference(s): | CVE-2017-8779
RHSA-2017:1267
RHSA-2017:1267-00
RHSA-2017:1267-01
RHSA-2017:1267-02
RHSA-2017:1267-03
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| Platform(s): | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
| Product(s): | |
| Definition Synopsis |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed OR Package Information
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 is installed
AND rpcbind is earlier than 0:0.2.0-13.el6_9
AND rpcbind is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
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