Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting twisted package, versions <16.0.0-1ubuntu0.4+esm1


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Ubuntu security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.47% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-TWISTED-2415185
  • published4 Mar 2022
  • disclosed3 Mar 2022

Introduced: 3 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-21716  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Ubuntu:16.04 twisted to version 16.0.0-1ubuntu0.4+esm1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream twisted package and not the twisted package as distributed by Ubuntu. See How to fix? for Ubuntu:16.04 relevant fixed versions and status.

Twisted is an event-based framework for internet applications, supporting Python 3.6+. Prior to 22.2.0, Twisted SSH client and server implement is able to accept an infinite amount of data for the peer's SSH version identifier. This ends up with a buffer using all the available memory. The attach is a simple as nc -rv localhost 22 &lt; /dev/zero. A patch is available in version 22.2.0. There are currently no known workarounds.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1