Buffer overflow in Netty - CVE-2014-3488

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Buffer overflow in Netty - CVE-2014-3488

Published: July 31, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41436
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-3488
CWE-ID: CWE-119
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.

The SslHandler in Netty before 3.9.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop and CPU consumption) via a crafted SSLv2Hello message.


Affected software

Netty
IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics
Operations Analytics - Log Analysis
StreamSets Data Collector

How to mitigate CVE-2014-3488

Install update from vendor's website.

Operations Analytics - Log Analysis - update to 1.3.8.4
StreamSets Data Collector - update to 7.0.0

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