#VU12203 Disk consumption in Liferay Enterprise Portal

 

#VU12203 Disk consumption in Liferay Enterprise Portal

Published: April 26, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12203
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: 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:Clear
CVE-ID: N/A
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Liferay Enterprise Portal
Software vendor:
Liferay

Description

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

The weakness exists due to an error when using Xuggler. A remote attacker can create a large number of temporary files during video playback when Xuggler is enabled for video conversion, trigger disk consumption and cause the service to crash.


Remediation

Update to version 7.0 CE GA6 (7.0.5) or later.

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