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Red Hat JBossEAP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2020-13949)

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Red Hat JBossEAP: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CVE-2020-13949)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
02/11/2021
Created
09/20/2024
Added
09/19/2024
Modified
12/20/2024

Description

In Apache Thrift 0.9.3 to 0.13.0, malicious RPC clients could send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service.. A flaw was found in libthrift. Applications using Thrift would not show an error upon receiving messages declaring containers of sizes larger than the payload. This results in malicious RPC clients with the ability to send short messages which would result in a large memory allocation, potentially leading to denial of service. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Solution(s)

  • red-hat-jboss-eap-upgrade-latest

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