CVE-2016-9589

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Mar 12, 2018
Updated
Aug 6, 2024
Reserved
Nov 23, 2016

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Description

Undertow in Red Hat wildfly before version 11.0.0.Beta1 is vulnerable to a resource exhaustion resulting in a denial of service. Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to "max-headers" (default 200) * "max-header-size" (default 1MB) per active TCP connection.

Scores

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Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
wildflyRed Hat, Inc.
  • 11.0.0.Beta1Affected

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