Resource management error in Netty - CVE-2014-0193
Published: May 6, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU41720
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: 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:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2014-0193
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Netty project
Affected software:
Netty
Netty
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
WebSocket08FrameDecoder in Netty 3.6.x before 3.6.9, 3.7.x before 3.7.1, 3.8.x before 3.8.2, 3.9.x before 3.9.1, and 4.0.x before 4.0.19 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a TextWebSocketFrame followed by a long stream of ContinuationWebSocketFrames.
How to mitigate CVE-2014-0193
Install update from vendor's website.
Sources
- http://netty.io/news/2014/04/30/release-day.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1019.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1020.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1021.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-1351.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0675.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0720.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0765.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/58280
- http://secunia.com/advisories/59290
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/67182
- https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2441
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8@%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/02/msg00018.html