Bug 1593776 (CVE-2018-10868)
| Summary: | CVE-2018-10868 redhat-certification: billion laugh attack when getting the status of a host | ||
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| Product: | [Other] Security Response | Reporter: | Riccardo Schirone <rschiron> |
| Component: | vulnerability | Assignee: | Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | unspecified | CC: | brose, gnichols |
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | Security |
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
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It has been discovered that redhat-certification does not properly limit the number of recursive definitions of entities in XML documents while parsing the status of a host. A remote attacker could use this vulnerability to consume all the memory of the server and cause a Denial of Service.
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| Last Closed: | 2021-10-25 09:45:42 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Depends On: | 1608786 | ||
| Bug Blocks: | 1593614 | ||
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Description
Riccardo Schirone
2018-06-21 14:48:29 UTC
Acknowledgments: Name: Riccardo Schirone (Red Hat Product Security) getHostStatus in view.py connects to an XMLRPC server provided by the user, who could setup a fake server and reply with a small XML file which, when parsed, uses a big amount of memory. |