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Red Hat JBossEAP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2018-1114)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2018-1114)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
04/21/2018
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

Description

It was found that URLResource.getLastModified() in Undertow closes the file descriptors only when they are finalized which can cause file descriptors to exhaust. This leads to a file handler leak.. It was found that URLResource.getLastModified() in Undertow closes the file descriptors only when they are finalized which can cause file descriptors to exhaust. This leads to a file handler leak.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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