Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20171268
Revision Date:2017-05-23Version:638
Title:RHSA-2017:1268: libtirpc security update (Important)
Description:The libtirpc packages contain SunLib's implementation of transport-independent remote procedure call (TI-RPC) documentation, which includes a library required by programs in the nfs-utils and rpcbind packages.

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)
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2017-8779
    RHSA-2017:1268
    RHSA-2017:1268-00
    RHSA-2017:1268-01
    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
  • libtirpc is earlier than 0:0.2.1-13.el6_9
  • AND libtirpc is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • libtirpc-devel is earlier than 0:0.2.1-13.el6_9
  • AND libtirpc-devel is signed with Red Hat redhatrelease2 key
  • BACK