CVE-2016-4970

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2016-06-07
CWE:
CWE-835
Bugzilla:
1343616: CVE-2016-4970 netty: Infinite loop vulnerability when handling renegotiation using SslProvider.OpenSsl

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

handler/ssl/OpenSslEngine.java in Netty 4.0.x before 4.0.37.Final and 4.1.x before 4.1.1.Final allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite loop).

Find out more about CVE-2016-4970 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

CVSS v2 metrics

Base Score 4.3
Base Metrics AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Medium
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Partial

CVSS v3 metrics

CVSS3 Base Score 3.7
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity High
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact Low

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Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat JBoss Fuse 6.3 RHSA-2017:0179 2017-01-19
Red Hat JBoss A-MQ 6.3 RHSA-2017:0179 2017-01-19
Red Hat JBoss Data Grid 7.1 RHSA-2017:1097 2017-04-19

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager 1 netty Not affected
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux thermostat1-netty Not affected
Red Hat Software Collections for Red Hat Enterprise Linux rh-java-common-netty Not affected
Red Hat Satellite 6 netty Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 opendaylight Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) opendaylight Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 opendaylight Not affected
Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 netty Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Operations Network 3 netty Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss Fuse Service Works 6 netty Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7.0.9 netty Will not fix
Red Hat JBoss EAP 7 netty Not affected
Red Hat JBoss EAP 6 netty Not affected
Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization 6 netty Not affected
Red Hat JBoss BRMS 6 netty Not affected
Red Hat JBoss BPMS 6 netty Not affected
Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 Operational Tools for RHEL 7 netty Not affected

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