Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting org.onosproject:onos-core-net package, versions [1.0.0,1.0.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-JAVA-ORGONOSPROJECT-31259
  • published9 Oct 2015
  • disclosed9 Oct 2015
  • creditJonathan Hart

Introduced: 9 Oct 2015

CVE-2015-1166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

org.onosproject:onos-core-net Affected versions of the package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). It was found that the packet deserializers in ONOS would throw exceptions when handling malformed, truncated or maliciously-crafted packets. The exceptions were not caught and handled, which would result in the relevant switch being disconnected because an exception occurred in an I/O thread. A remote unauthenticated attacker could use this flaw to perform a Denial of Service (DoS) attack by causing ONOS to disconnect switches.

Details

Denial of Service (DoS) describes a family of attacks, all aimed at making a system inaccessible to its intended and legitimate users.

Unlike other vulnerabilities, DoS attacks usually do not aim at breaching security. Rather, they are focused on making websites and services unavailable to genuine users resulting in downtime.

One popular Denial of Service vulnerability is DDoS (a Distributed Denial of Service), an attack that attempts to clog network pipes to the system by generating a large volume of traffic from many machines.

When it comes to open source libraries, DoS vulnerabilities allow attackers to trigger such a crash or crippling of the service by using a flaw either in the application code or from the use of open source libraries.

Two common types of DoS vulnerabilities:

  • High CPU/Memory Consumption- An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to take a disproportionate amount of time to process. For example, commons-fileupload:commons-fileupload.

  • Crash - An attacker sending crafted requests that could cause the system to crash. For Example, npm ws package

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