Bug 1107983 (CVE-2014-3488) - CVE-2014-3488 Netty: DoS by CPU exhaustion when using malicious SSL packets
Summary: CVE-2014-3488 Netty: DoS by CPU exhaustion when using malicious SSL packets
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: CVE-2014-3488
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2014-06-11 08:41 UTC by Arun Babu Neelicattu
Modified: 2021-02-17 06:29 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: Netty 3.9.2.Final
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-06-13 08:53:22 UTC

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Description Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-06-11 08:41:35 UTC 
It was discovered that when handling specifically crafted SSL packets, the SslHandler implementation in Netty entered an infinite loop. An unauthenticated remote attacker could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service by CPU exhaustion.

Affects: 3.9.0, 3.9.1
Comment 1 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-06-11 08:46:29 UTC 
Statement:

Netty versions as shipped by Red Hat products are not affected by this flaw.
Comment 4 Norman Maurer 2014-06-11 09:41:11 UTC 
Here is the issue and the fix:
https://github.com/netty/netty/issues/2562
Comment 5 Norman Maurer 2014-06-11 10:14:50 UTC 
Netty 3.9.2.Final was released with the fix included.

See http://netty.io/news/2014/06/11/3.html
Comment 6 Arun Babu Neelicattu 2014-06-13 08:40:40 UTC 
Acknowledgement:

Red Hat would like to thank Laurentiu Luca for reporting this issue.
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