Resource Exhaustion Affecting icinga2 package, versions <2.8.4-1


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.35% (69th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-ICINGA2-276773
  • published27 Feb 2018
  • disclosed27 Feb 2018

Introduced: 27 Feb 2018

CVE-2018-6532  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable icinga2 to version 2.8.4-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream icinga2 package and not the icinga2 package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Icinga 2.x through 2.8.1. By sending specially crafted (authenticated and unauthenticated) requests, an attacker can exhaust a lot of memory on the server side, triggering the OOM killer.