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GHSA-6mjq-h674-j845 netty-handler SniHandler 16MB allocation
MEDIUM
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- Aliases
- CVE-2023-34462
- Ecosystem
- Maven
- Packages
- io.netty:netty-handler
- Severity
- Moderate
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400, CWE-770
- Reviewed
- 2023-06-20
Affected packages
• Maven io.netty:netty-handler: < 4.1.94.Final → fixed in 4.1.94.Final
Description
Summary
The `SniHandler` can allocate up to 16MB of heap for each channel during the TLS handshake. When the handler or the channel does not have an idle timeout, it can be used to make a TCP server using the `SniHandler` to allocate 16MB of heap.
Details
The `SniHandler` class is a handler that waits for the TLS handshake to configure a `SslHandler` according to the indicated server name by the `ClientHello` record. For this matter it allocates a `ByteBuf` using the value defined in the `ClientHello` record.
Normally the value of the packet should be smaller than the handshake packet but there are not checks done here and the way the code is written, it is possible to craft a packet that makes the `SslClientHelloHandler`
1/ allocate a 16MB `ByteBuf`
2/ not fail `decode` method `in` buffer
3/ get out of the loop without an exception
The combination of this without the use of a timeout makes easy to connect to a TCP server and allocate 16MB of heap memory per connection.
Impact
If the user has no idle timeout handler configured it might be possible for a remote peer to send a client hello packet which lead the server to buffer up to 16MB of data per connection. This could lead to a OutOfMemoryError and so result in a DDOS.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2023-34462 Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers… vulnerability
References
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-6mjq-h674-j845 web
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-34462 advisory
- https://github.com/netty/netty/commit/535da17e45201ae4278c0479e6162bb4127d4c32 web
- https://github.com/netty/netty package
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230803-0001 web
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20240621-0007 web
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5558 web