CVE-2020-14340: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

June 8, 2021 (updated June 15, 2021)

A vulnerability was discovered in XNIO where file descriptor leak caused by growing amounts of NIO Selector file handles between garbage collection cycles. It may allow the attacker to cause a denial of service. It affects XNIO versions 3.6.0.Beta1 through 3.8.1.Final.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-c738-77x8-wmq5
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-14340

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