CVE-2017-2670: Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition (Infinite Loop)

July 27, 2018 (updated October 9, 2019)

With non-clean TCP close, the Websocket server gets into infinite loop on every IO thread, effectively causing DoS.

References

rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-1409.html
www.securityfocus.com/bid/98965
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-2670
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-2670

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