CVE-2016-9589

Summary

CVECVE-2016-9589
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-12 15:29:00 UTC
Updated2019-10-09 23:20:00 UTC
DescriptionUndertow 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)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
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

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
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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