Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') Affecting undertow package, versions <1.4.18-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.41% (91st percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-UNDERTOW-307900
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed27 Jul 2018

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2017-2670  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-835  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable undertow to version 1.4.18-1 or higher.

NVD Description

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

It was found in Undertow before 1.3.28 that with non-clean TCP close, the Websocket server gets into infinite loop on every IO thread, effectively causing DoS.