SUSE update for jakarta-commons-fileupload

Published: 2023-03-14

Risk	Medium
Patch available	YES
Number of vulnerabilities	2
CVE-ID	CVE-2016-3092 CVE-2023-24998
CWE-ID	CWE-400 CWE-770
Exploitation vector	Network
Public exploit	N/A
Vulnerable software Subscribe	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15 Operating systems & Components / Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS Operating systems & Components / Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 Operating systems & Components / Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS Operating systems & Components / Operating system SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 Operating systems & Components / Operating system SUSE CaaS Platform Operating systems & Components / Operating system openSUSE Leap Operating systems & Components / Operating system jakarta-commons-fileupload-javadoc Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component jakarta-commons-fileupload Operating systems & Components / Operating system package or component
Vendor	SUSE

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains information about 2 vulnerabilities.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU197

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 5.9 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3092

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause denial of service conditions on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing very long boundary strings within the MultipartStream class in Apache Commons Fileupload. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions by sending specially crafted boundary string and consume excessive CPU resources.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Update the affected package jakarta-commons-fileupload to the latest version.

Vulnerable software versions

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15: SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP1 LTSS: 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15: SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP1 LTSS: 15-SP1

SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15: SP1

SUSE CaaS Platform: 4.0

openSUSE Leap: 15.4

jakarta-commons-fileupload-javadoc: before 1.1.1-150000.4.8.1

jakarta-commons-fileupload: before 1.1.1-150000.4.8.1

External links

http://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2023/suse-su-20230730-1/

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.

2) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

EUVDB-ID: #VU72427