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CVE-2026-85977

MEDIUM CVSS: 5.3 Published: 2026-10-16 Modified: 2026-10-16

Description

A flaw was found in libtirpc. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending specially crafted PMAPPROC_DUMP replies to a client application that uses the pmap_getmaps() function against an attacker-controlled host. This unbounded decoding can lead to excessive memory and CPU allocation, causing the client process to experience a Denial of Service (DoS) due to resource exhaustion.

Affected Platforms

Unknown

Weakness Type

CWE-1050

References