SB2016031402 - Denial of service in Red Hat WildFly



SB2016031402 - Denial of service in Red Hat WildFly

Published: March 14, 2016 Updated: March 14, 2018

Security Bulletin ID SB2016031402
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Partial DoS

Breakdown by Severity

Low 100%
  • Low
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  • Critical

Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.


1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9589)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.

The weakness exists in the Undertow component due to improper resource management. A remote attacker can use a cache of seen HTTP headers that is kept in persistent connections, send a specially crafted input, consume excessive amounts of memory resources and cause the service to crash.

Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.