CVE-2023-34462
June 22, 2023
Netty is an asynchronous event-driven network application framework for rapid development of maintainable high performance protocol servers & clients. 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. 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". This vulnerability has been fixed in version 4.1.94.Final.
Affected Packages
io.netty:netty-handler (JAVA):
Affected version(s) >=4.0.0.Alpha1 <4.1.94.FinalFix Suggestion:
Update to version 4.1.94.FinalAdditional Notes
The description of this vulnerability differs from MITRE.
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
7.1
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
NONE
Vulnerable System Availability
HIGH
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
NONE
Availability
HIGH
Weakness Type (CWE)
EPSS
Base Score:
1.00