CVE-2017-12174

Summary

CVECVE-2017-12174
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-03-07 22:29:00 UTC
Updated2023-02-12 23:27:00 UTC
DescriptionIt was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Activemq Artemis All All All All
Application Apache Activemq Artemis All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 5.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 6.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Application Redhat Hornetq All All All All
Application Redhat Hornetq All All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.0 All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.0 All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 6.0.0 All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 6.4.0 All All All
Application Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
1498378 – (CVE-2017-12174) CVE-2017-12174 artemis/hornetq: memory exhaustion via UDP and JGroups discovery CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Pony Mail! MISC lists.apache.org
Pony Mail! MLIST lists.apache.org Mailing List, Vendor Advisory
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 access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
Pony Mail! MISC lists.apache.org
Red Hat Customer Portal REDHAT access.redhat.com Vendor Advisory
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NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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