CVE-2016-9589

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.

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404782

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97060

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0876.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3