CVE-2023-5236: Infinispan circular object references causes out of memory errors
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A flaw was found in Infinispan, which does not detect circular object references when unmarshalling. An authenticated attacker with sufficient permissions could insert a maliciously constructed object into the cache and use it to cause out of memory errors and achieve a denial of service.
References
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5396
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5236
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2240999
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-488m-w9fp-5mm2
- github.com/infinispan/infinispan
- github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4501b6b307a6bab545346f66238f8be7e42f83eb
- github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/4ef66958f2c4890ae1c6a7acd629d27bd88aa4cb
- github.com/infinispan/protostream/commit/50320b5987dc87bc04b616b87e8cf93472ee19c1
- issues.redhat.com/browse/IPROTO-262
- issues.redhat.com/browse/IPROTO-263
- issues.redhat.com/browse/ISPN-14534
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5236
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240125-0004
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