Resource Exhaustion Affecting libwebsockets package, versions <0:2.4.2-2.el7
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBWEBSOCKETS-4447300
- published26 Mar 2023
- disclosed6 Nov 2018
Introduced: 6 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-16470 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade RHEL:7 libwebsockets to version 0:2.4.2-2.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2019:3172.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwebsockets package and not the libwebsockets package as distributed by RHEL.
See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.
There is a possible DoS vulnerability in the multipart parser in Rack before 2.0.6. Specially crafted requests can cause the multipart parser to enter a pathological state, causing the parser to use CPU resources disproportionate to the request size.