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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
Sep 18, 2018
Added
Nov 19, 2024
Modified
Apr 16, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-undertow
Title
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