Bug 1067268 (CVE-2014-0086)

Summary: CVE-2014-0086 JBoss RichFaces: remote denial of service via memory exhaustion
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: David Jorm <djorm>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
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Version: unspecifiedCC: chazlett, grocha, jpallich, mjc, pmuir, weli
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It was found that certain malformed requests caused RichFaces to leak memory. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to send a large number of malformed requests to a RichFaces application that uses the Atmosphere framework, leading to a denial of service (excessive memory consumption) on the application server.
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Bug Depends On: 1071050, 1081272    
Bug Blocks: 1065496, 1067269, 1082921, 1082938    

Description David Jorm 2014-02-20 04:17:07 UTC
It was found that certain malformed requests caused RichFaces to leak memory. A remote, unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to send a large number of malformed requests to a RichFaces application that uses the Atmosphere framework, leading to a denial of service (excessive memory consumption) on the application server.

Comment 1 David Jorm 2014-02-20 04:18:33 UTC
Upstream bug:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/RF-13250

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2014-03-26 16:36:02 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit 2.5.0

Via RHSA-2014:0335 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0335.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2015-05-14 15:16:20 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  JBoss Portal 6.2.0

Via RHSA-2015:1009 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1009.html