Denial of service in Graphite - CVE-2017-7775

 

Denial of service in Graphite - CVE-2017-7775

Published: June 14, 2017


Vulnerability identifier: #VU7086
CSH Severity: Low
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-2017-7775
CWE-ID: CWE-125
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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

The weakness exists in Graphite 2 library due to an error in 'size() > n'. A remote attacker can cause the application to crash.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability results in denial of service.

Affected software

Graphite
Gentoo Linux
Amazon Linux AMI
Debian Linux
Arch Linux
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node
Ubuntu
Opensuse
Mozilla Firefox
Firefox ESR
Mozilla Thunderbird

How to mitigate CVE-2017-7775

Install update from vendor's website.

Mozilla Firefox - update to 54.0
Firefox ESR - update to 52.2.0
Mozilla Thunderbird - update to 52.2

External References

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