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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package libwebsockets  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-LIBWEBSOCKETS-5457728
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed31 Jan 2020
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Introduced: 31 Jan 2020

CVE-2020-11612  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:7.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libwebsockets package and not the libwebsockets package as distributed by RHEL.

The ZlibDecoders in Netty 4.1.x before 4.1.46 allow for unbounded memory allocation while decoding a ZlibEncoded byte stream. An attacker could send a large ZlibEncoded byte stream to the Netty server, forcing the server to allocate all of its free memory to a single decoder.

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