CVE-2016-9589
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2016-9589 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2018-03-12 15:29:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2019-10-09 23:20:00 UTC |
| Description | Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to "max-headers" (default 200) * "max-header-size" (default 1MB) per active TCP connection. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-400
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
| Type | Vendor | Product | Version | Update | Edition | Language |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Application | Redhat | Jboss Wildfly Application Server | 11.0.0 | alpha1 | All | All |
| Application | Redhat | Jboss Wildfly Application Server | 11.0.0 | alpha1 | All | All |
| Application | Redhat | Jboss Wildfly Application Server | All | All | All | All |
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | access.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | access.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | rhn.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | rhn.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Redhat Wildfly CVE-2016-9589 Denial of Service Vulnerability | BID | www.securityfocus.com | Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry |
| 1404782 – (CVE-2016-9589) CVE-2016-9589 wildfly: ParseState headerValuesCache can be exploited to fill heap with garbage | CONFIRM | bugzilla.redhat.com | Issue Tracking |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | access.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | rhn.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | rhn.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | access.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | rhn.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | access.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| Red Hat Customer Portal | REDHAT | access.redhat.com | Vendor Advisory |
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
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