Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting rpcbind package, versions <0.2.3-0.6


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
82.25% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-RPCBIND-303959
  • published4 May 2017
  • disclosed4 May 2017

Introduced: 4 May 2017

CVE-2017-8779  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 rpcbind to version 0.2.3-0.6 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rpcbind package and not the rpcbind package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

rpcbind through 0.2.4, LIBTIRPC through 1.0.1 and 1.0.2-rc through 1.0.2-rc3, and NTIRPC through 1.4.3 do not consider the maximum RPC data size during memory allocation for XDR strings, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption with no subsequent free) via a crafted UDP packet to port 111, aka rpcbomb.