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CVE-2024-3653

Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime

Published: Jul 08, 2024 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
5.3 LOW
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
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Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-3653
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/401.html

A vulnerability was found in Undertow. This issue requires enabling the learning-push handler in the servers config, which is disabled by default, leaving the maxAge config in the handler unconfigured. The default is -1, which makes the handler vulnerable. If someone overwrites that config, the server is not subject to the attack. The attacker needs to be able to reach the server with a normal HTTP request.

Weakness

The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, making the memory unavailable for reallocation and reuse.

Affected Software

NameVendorStart VersionEnd Version
Red Hat build of Quarkus 3.8.6.redhatRedHatio.quarkus.http/quarkus-http-core:5.2.4.redhat-00001*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7RedHatundertow*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 8RedHateap7-undertow-0:2.2.33-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el8eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 for RHEL 9RedHateap7-undertow-0:2.2.33-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el9eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 7.4 on RHEL 7RedHateap7-undertow-0:2.2.33-1.SP1_redhat_00001.1.el7eap*
Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform 8RedHatundertow*
UndertowUbuntufocal*
UndertowUbuntuoracular*
UndertowUbuntuplucky*

Potential Mitigations

  • Choose a language or tool that provides automatic memory management, or makes manual memory management less error-prone.
  • For example, glibc in Linux provides protection against free of invalid pointers.
  • When using Xcode to target OS X or iOS, enable automatic reference counting (ARC) [REF-391].
  • To help correctly and consistently manage memory when programming in C++, consider using a smart pointer class such as std::auto_ptr (defined by ISO/IEC ISO/IEC 14882:2003), std::shared_ptr and std::unique_ptr (specified by an upcoming revision of the C++ standard, informally referred to as C++ 1x), or equivalent solutions such as Boost.

References

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