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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-21607: jenkins: Excessive memory allocation in graph URLs leads to denial of service

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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2021-21607: jenkins: Excessive memory allocation in graph URLs leads to denial of service

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/13/2021
Created
02/20/2021
Added
02/19/2021
Modified
05/10/2023

Description

Jenkins 2.274 and earlier, LTS 2.263.1 and earlier does not limit sizes provided as query parameters to graph-rendering URLs, allowing attackers to request crafted URLs that use all available memory in Jenkins, potentially leading to out of memory errors.

Solution(s)

  • linuxrpm-upgrade-conmon
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-jenkins
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-machine-config-daemon
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift-ansible
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-openshift-clients
  • linuxrpm-upgrade-runc

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