CVE-2016-9589: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
(updated )
Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to “max-headers” (default 200) * “max-header-size” (default 1MB) per active TCP connection.
References
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html
- rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-p4xg-cpr9-vwvj
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9589
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