CVE-2025-55181
Description
A flaw was found in proxygen. This vulnerability allows a denial of service (DoS) via sending an HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) request/response body with greater than 2^31 bytes, triggering an infinite loop and unbounded memory growth.
Statement
Red Hat Product Security has determined that this vulnerability does not affect any currently supported Red Hat product. This assessment may evolve based on further analysis and discovery. For more information about this vulnerability and the products it affects, please see the linked references.
Understanding the Weakness (CWE)
Availability
Technical Impact: DoS: Resource Consumption (CPU); DoS: Resource Consumption (Memory); DoS: Amplification
An infinite loop will cause unexpected consumption of resources, such as CPU cycles or memory. The software's operation may slow down, or cause a long time to respond.
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