Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting slirp4netns package, versions <0:1.2.3-1.module+el8.10.0+90298+77a9814d


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.22% (60th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE8-SLIRP4NETNS-6156416
  • published14 Jan 2024
  • disclosed8 Sept 2023

Introduced: 8 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-39322  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 slirp4netns to version 0:1.2.3-1.module+el8.10.0+90298+77a9814d or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2024-2988.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream slirp4netns package and not the slirp4netns package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

QUIC connections do not set an upper bound on the amount of data buffered when reading post-handshake messages, allowing a malicious QUIC connection to cause unbounded memory growth. With fix, connections now consistently reject messages larger than 65KiB in size.

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