Fixed
Created: Mar 11, 2023
Updated: May 22, 2023
Resolved Date: May 22, 2023
Found In Version: 10.21.20.1
Fix Version: 10.21.20.18
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux LTS 21
Component/s: Userspace
HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service. With fix, header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-24534