vulnerability

Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2024-49769: waitress: Waitress has a denial of service leading to high CPU usage/resource exhaustion

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
2024-10-29
Added
2024-11-25
Modified
2025-04-14

Description

Waitress is a Web Server Gateway Interface server for Python 2 and 3. When a remote client closes the connection before waitress has had the opportunity to call getpeername() waitress won't correctly clean up the connection leading to the main thread attempting to write to a socket that no longer exists, but not removing it from the list of sockets to attempt to process. This leads to a busy-loop calling the write function. A remote attacker could run waitress out of available sockets with very little resources required. Waitress 3.0.1 contains fixes that remove the race condition.

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-python-waitress
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