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CVE-2017-8779 - log back

CVE-2017-8779 created at 25 Sep 2019 19:31:40
Severity	+ Medium
Remote	+ Remote
Type	+ Denial of service
Description	+ It was found that libtirpc and libntirpc fails to free a buffer allocated for parsing XDR blocks when parsing fails due to insufficient input data being available. A specially crafted message sent to a service such as rpcbind results in a memory leak, causing the application to crash or other processes to be impacted via the OOM killer.
References	+ https://guidovranken.wordpress.com/2017/05/03/rpcbomb-remote-rpcbind-denial-of-service-patches/
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