Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting qpid package, versions [,0.22)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.1% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-QPID-2384867
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed14 Mar 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 Mar 2013

CVE-2012-4458  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-189  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade qpid to version 0.22 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS). The AMQP type decoder in Apache Qpid 0.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and server crash) via a large number of zero width elements in the client-properties map in a connection.start-ok message.

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