Resource Exhaustion Affecting etcd package, versions <0:3.3.23-1.el8ost


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.08% (36th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-ETCD-4379113
  • published26 Mar 2023
  • disclosed5 Aug 2020

Introduced: 5 Aug 2020

CVE-2020-15106  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 etcd to version 0:3.3.23-1.el8ost or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2021:0916.

NVD Description

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

In etcd before versions 3.3.23 and 3.4.10, a large slice causes panic in decodeRecord method. The size of a record is stored in the length field of a WAL file and no additional validation is done on this data. Therefore, it is possible to forge an extremely large frame size that can unintentionally panic at the expense of any RAFT participant trying to decode the WAL.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1