Bug 1644262 (CVE-2018-16789) - CVE-2018-16789 shellinabox: Infinite loop due to malformed request payload
Summary: CVE-2018-16789 shellinabox: Infinite loop due to malformed request payload
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-16789
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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medium
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1644264 1644263
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-10-30 10:30 UTC by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2019-09-29 15:01 UTC (History)
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Fixed In Version: shellinabox 2.21
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:41:13 UTC
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-10-30 10:30:30 UTC 
The multipart/form-data parser function in the built-in webserver of Shell In A Box enters an infinite loop in case of malformed request payload.

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https://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2018/Oct/50
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-10-30 10:31:27 UTC 
Created shellinabox tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1644264]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1644263]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:41:13 UTC 
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.
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