SB2016031402 - Denial of service in Red Hat WildFly
Published: March 14, 2016 Updated: March 14, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2016031402
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-9589)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists in the Undertow component due to improper resource management. A remote attacker can use a cache of seen HTTP headers that is kept in persistent connections, send a specially crafted input, consume excessive amounts of memory resources and cause the service to crash.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.