Resource Exhaustion The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package cfrpki  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-CFRPKI-1920694
  • published12 Nov 2021
  • disclosed11 Nov 2021

Introduced: 11 Nov 2021

CVE-2021-3909  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Debian security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Debian:unstable.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream cfrpki package and not the cfrpki package as distributed by Debian.

OctoRPKI does not limit the length of a connection, allowing for a slowloris DOS attack to take place which makes OctoRPKI wait forever. Specifically, the repository that OctoRPKI sends HTTP requests to will keep the connection open for a day before a response is returned, but does keep drip feeding new bytes to keep the connection alive.