Bug 2027176 (CVE-2021-41973) - CVE-2021-41973 mina-core: infinite loop may lead to DoS
Summary: CVE-2021-41973 mina-core: infinite loop may lead to DoS
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: CVE-2021-41973
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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Blocks: 2027178
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Reported: 2021-11-29 04:34 UTC by Marian Rehak
Modified: 2021-11-29 21:51 UTC (History)
63 users (show)

Fixed In Version: mina-core 2.1.5
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Last Closed: 2021-11-29 21:51:38 UTC
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Description Marian Rehak 2021-11-29 04:34:56 UTC 
In Apache MINA, a specifically crafted, malformed HTTP request may cause the HTTP Header decoder to loop indefinitely. The decoder assumed that the HTTP Header begins at the beginning of the buffer and loops if there is more data than expected.

External Reference:

https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r0b907da9340d5ff4e6c1a4798ef4e79700a668657f27cca8a39e9250%40%3Cdev.mina.apache.org%3E
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/01/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/11/01/8
Comment 1 Jonathan Christison 2021-11-29 17:29:11 UTC 
This vulnerability is out of security support scope for the following products:
 
 * Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 6
 * Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6
 * Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6
 * Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6
 * Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6
 * Red Hat JBoss SOA Platform 5
 * Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works

Please refer to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/jboss_notes for more details.
Comment 3 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-11-29 21:51:35 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-41973
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