CVE-2017-12174

It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.

Published: Mar 7, 2018
Updated: May 9, 2024
CVE: CVE-2017-12174
GHSA: GHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j
Severity: High
Exploit:

CVSS v3:

Severity: High
Score: 7.5
AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2:

Severity: High
Score: 7.8
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

CWEs:

CWE-400

Affected Software
References

Software	From	Fixed in
apache / activemq_artemis	-	2.4.0
redhat / hornetq	-	2.4.0
redhat / jboss_enterprise_application_platform	6.4.0	6.4.0.x
redhat / jboss_enterprise_application_platform	7.1.0	7.1.0.x
redhat / jboss_enterprise_application_platform	6.0.0	6.0.0.x
org.hornetq / hornetq-server	-	2.4.0.Final
org.apache.activemq / artemis-native	-	2.4.0

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d@%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088@%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E

Vulnerability Database

CVE-2017-12174

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