SB2021101948 - Denial of service in Netty
Published: October 19, 2021 Updated: May 12, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2021101948
Severity
Medium
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-2021-37136)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources in Bzip2 decompression decoder function. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.
References
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-grg4-wf29-r9vv
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rfb2bf8597e53364ccab212fbcbb2a4e9f0a9e1429b1dc08023c6868e@%3Cdev.tinkerpop.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r75490c61c2cb7b6ae2c81238fd52ae13636c60435abcd732d41531a0@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5e05eba32476c580412f9fbdfc9b8782d5b40558018ac4ac07192a04@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r5406eaf3b07577d233b9f07cfc8f26e28369e6bab5edfcab41f28abb@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r06a145c9bd41a7344da242cef07977b24abe3349161ede948e30913d@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd262f59b1586a108e320e5c966feeafbb1b8cdc96965debc7cc10b16@%3Ccommits.druid.apache.org%3E
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2022.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220210-0012/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html