Bug 1404782 (CVE-2016-9589)

Summary: CVE-2016-9589 wildfly: ParseState headerValuesCache can be exploited to fill heap with garbage
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: bbaranow, bmaxwell, cdewolf, chazlett, csutherl, dandread, darran.lofthouse, dosoudil, jawilson, jshepherd, lgao, myarboro, pslavice, rnetuka, rsvoboda, sdouglas, security-response-team, twalsh, vtunka, yantao
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It was found that JBoss EAP 7 Header Cache was inefficient. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service attack.
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Bug Blocks: 1404783, 1424497, 1438536, 1520314    

Description Adam Mariš 2016-12-14 15:59:52 UTC
Undertow keeps a cache of seen HTTP headers in persistent connections. It was found that this cache can easily exploited to fill memory with garbage, up to "max-headers" (default 200) * "max-header-size" (default 1MB) per active TCP connection.

Upstream bug:

https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-7725

Comment 5 Jason Shepherd 2016-12-18 23:42:20 UTC
Acknowledgements:

Name: Gabriel Lavoie (Halogen Software)

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 17:21:31 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0

Via RHSA-2017:0830 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0830.html

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 17:54:13 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0832 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0832.html

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 17:54:35 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0831 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0831.html

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-03-22 18:02:03 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 6
  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.0 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0834 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0834.html

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-04 17:16:16 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:



Via RHSA-2017:0876 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0876

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-04 17:27:27 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:0873 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0873

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-04-04 17:27:50 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Single Sign-On 7.1 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:0872 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:0872

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-13 17:34:23 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

Via RHSA-2017:3456 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3456

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-13 18:26:49 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:3454 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3454

Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-13 18:42:46 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:3455 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3455

Comment 18 errata-xmlrpc 2017-12-13 18:49:14 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 7
  Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.1 for RHEL 6

Via RHSA-2017:3458 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:3458