Resource Exhaustion Affecting crit package, versions <0:3.18-4.module+el8.9.0+90021+ce997450


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.41% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-CRIT-6080371
  • published23 Nov 2023
  • disclosed6 Apr 2023

Introduced: 6 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-24534  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 crit to version 0:3.18-4.module+el8.9.0+90021+ce997450 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2023-6939.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream crit package and not the crit package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service. With fix, header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.

CVSS Scores

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