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Red Hat JBossEAP: Other (CVE-2020-11612)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Other (CVE-2020-11612)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/31/2020
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
09/20/2024

Description

The ZlibDecoders in Netty 4.1.x before 4.1.46 allow for unbounded memory allocation while decoding a ZlibEncoded byte stream. An attacker could send a large ZlibEncoded byte stream to the Netty server, forcing the server to allocate all of its free memory to a single decoder.. A flaw was found in Netty in the way it handles the amount of data it compresses and decompresses. The Compression/Decompression codecs should enforce memory allocation size limits to avoid an Out of Memory Error (OOME) or exhaustion of the memory pool.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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