Last updated 18 August 2025
A flaw was found in libtirpc. The return value of makefdxprt was used without checking for NULL in svcvc.c, leading to a null pointer dereference / segfault if the maximum number of available file descriptors was exhausted.
References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/showbug.cgi?id=968175
Upstream Patch: http://git.linux-nfs.org/?p=steved/libtirpc.git;a=commit;h=1c77f7a869bdea2a34799d774460d1f9983d45f0