CVE-2017-12174 (GCVE-0-2017-12174)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-03-07 22:00
Modified
2024-08-05 18:28
Severity ?
CWE
Summary
It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.
References
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481 Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.com https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481 Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174 Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
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Vendor Product Version
Red Hat, Inc. HornetQ/Artemis Version: before 2.4.0
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