Bug 1067268 (CVE-2014-0086) - CVE-2014-0086 JBoss RichFaces: remote denial of service via memory exhaustion
Summary: CVE-2014-0086 JBoss RichFaces: remote denial of service via memory exhaustion
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2014-0086
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1071050 1081272
Blocks: 1065496 1067269 1082921 1082938
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Reported: 2014-02-20 04:17 UTC by David Jorm
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:49 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
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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Last Closed: 2016-01-21 20:29:02 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2014:0335 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Moderate: Red Hat JBoss Web Framework Kit 2.5.0 update 2014-03-26 20:35:43 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2015:1009 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: Red Hat JBoss Portal 6.2.0 update 2015-05-14 19:14:47 UTC

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


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