SB2022101980 - Denial of service in Istio 



SB2022101980 - Denial of service in Istio

Published: October 19, 2022

Security Bulletin ID SB2022101980
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

Medium 100%
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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-39278)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

This vulnerability is caused by usage of an affected version of Go (#VU68390, CVE-2022-41715).


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.