Red Hat update for jboss-ec2-eap



Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2016-3092
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
 JBoss Enterprise Application Platform
Server applications / Application servers

Vendor Red Hat Inc.

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU197

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 4.6 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3092

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause denial of service conditions on the target system.

The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing very long boundary strings within the MultipartStream class in Apache Commons Fileupload. A remote user can cause denial of service conditions by sending specially crafted boundary string and consume excessive CPU resources.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in denial of service attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

JBoss Enterprise Application Platform: 6.4.0

CPE2.3 External links

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:2072


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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