Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting rpcbind package, versions [,1.2.5)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
81.92% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-RPCBIND-2380714
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed4 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 4 May 2017

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

How to fix?

Upgrade rpcbind to version 1.2.5 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling 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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1