Resource management error in Netty - CVE-2014-0193

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Resource management error in Netty - CVE-2014-0193

Published: May 6, 2014 / Updated: August 10, 2020


Vulnerability identifier: #VU41720
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-2014-0193
CWE-ID: CWE-399
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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.


Affected software

Netty
IBM PureData System for Operational Analytics
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus
Operations Analytics - Log Analysis
StreamSets Data Collector
watsonx.data

How to mitigate CVE-2014-0193

Install update from vendor's website.

Operations Analytics - Log Analysis - update to 1.3.8.4
watsonx.data - update to 2.0.2
StreamSets Data Collector - update to 7.0.0
IBM Spectrum Protect Plus - update to 10.1.6.4

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