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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-14642): undertow vulnerability

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Ubuntu: (CVE-2018-14642): undertow vulnerability

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
09/18/2018
Created
11/21/2024
Added
11/19/2024
Modified
11/27/2024

Description

An information leak vulnerability was found in Undertow. If all headers are not written out in the first write() call then the code that handles flushing the buffer will always write out the full contents of the writevBuffer buffer, which may contain data from previous requests.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-undertow

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