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CVE-2017-12174

Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Artemis and HornetQ

Impact

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.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixed in
mavenorg.hornetq:hornetq-server<= 2.4.0.Beta32.4.0.Final
mavenorg.apache.activemq:artemis-native< 2.4.02.4.0

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
ApacheArtemis
before 2.4.0
RedhatHornetq
before 2.4.0
RedhatJboss Enterprise Application Platform
Versions 6.4.0, 7.1.0, 6.0.0

Weakness classification

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