QID 671117

Openwsman is a project intended to provide an open-source implementation of the web services management specipication (ws-management) and to expose system management information on the linux operating system using the ws-management protocol.
Ws-management is based on a suite of web services specifications and usage requirements that exposes a set of operations focused on and covers all system management aspects.
Security fix(es): openwsman, versions up to and including 2.6.9, are vulnerable to infinite loop in process_connection() when parsing specially crafted http requests.
A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious http request to cause denial of service to openwsman server.(cve-2019-3833)

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An arbitrary attacker may exploit this vulnerability to compromise the system.