In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, the server is vulnerable to Denial of Service conditions if a remote client sends either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames. The vulnerability is due to the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings Reference: https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=538096
Created jetty tracking bugs for this issue: Affects: fedora-all [bug 1696088]
Can you provide reproducer and/or reference to upstream fix? I've checked upstream Bugzilla, Github issue tracker and git commit logs, but I can't find anything that relates to this vulnerability.
In reply to comment #2: > Can you provide reproducer and/or reference to upstream fix? I've checked > upstream Bugzilla, Github issue tracker and git commit logs, but I can't > find anything that relates to this vulnerability. https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/issues/2722 https://github.com/eclipse/jetty.project/commit/9eca404da296f48f7f97eff44e7d1213415bf542 Hope this helps. There is no reproducer available at this moment
Thanks, that is enough information for me to fix the issue.
Statement: This issue affects the versions of jetty which is embedded in the nutch package as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 5. The jetty server is not exposed, as such exploitation is difficult, Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low in the context of Red Hat Satellite 5. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.
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