Bug 2042900 (CVE-2021-4213) - CVE-2021-4213 JSS: memory leak in TLS connection leads to OOM
Summary: CVE-2021-4213 JSS: memory leak in TLS connection leads to OOM
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2021-4213
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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: 2011102 (view as bug list)
Depends On: 2046022 2046023 2052631 2052632 2142975 2184498
Blocks: 2042903
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2022-01-20 10:25 UTC by Cedric Buissart
Modified: 2025-04-04 14:08 UTC (History)
20 users (show)

Fixed In Version: jss 5.1.0, jss 4.9.3
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2022-05-11 05:15:27 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Knowledge Base (Solution) 6956876 0 None None None 2022-09-13 11:50:06 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2022:1851 0 None None None 2022-05-10 13:49:26 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2024:0774 0 None None None 2024-02-12 09:09:14 UTC

Description Cedric Buissart 2022-01-20 10:25:49 UTC 
It was found that JSS did not properly free up all the memory resulting of a TLS connection. This could be used by an attacker to force the invocation of Linux's Out-Of-Memory process, causing a denial of service.
Comment 8 Cedric Buissart 2022-02-09 16:56:56 UTC 
Created jss tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 2052632]
Comment 12 Cedric Buissart 2022-02-14 08:10:27 UTC 
Upstream fix :
https://github.com/dogtagpki/jss/commit/5922560a78d0dee61af8a33cc9cfbf4cfa291448
https://github.com/dogtagpki/jss/commit/3aabe0e9d59b0a42e68ac8cd0468f9c5179967d2
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 13:49:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2022:1851 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1851
Comment 15 Product Security DevOps Team 2022-05-11 05:15:25 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-2021-4213
Comment 16 Petr Čech 2022-09-13 11:50:07 UTC 
*** Bug 2011102 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 17 errata-xmlrpc 2024-02-12 09:09:11 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Certificate System 10.4 for RHEL-8

Via RHSA-2024:0774 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0774
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