Veilid 0.1.9 Decompression memory leak

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A vulnerability was found in Veilid 0.1.9. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Decompression Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a memory leak vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-401. The product does not sufficiently track and release allocated memory after it has been used, which slowly consumes remaining memory. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

Veilid before 0.1.9 does not check the size of uncompressed data during decompression upon an envelope receipt, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory abort) via crafted packet data, as exploited in the wild in August 2023.

The weakness was shared 08/20/2023. The advisory is available at gitlab.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2023-40711 since 08/20/2023. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at gitlab.com.

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Class: Memory leak
CWE: CWE-401 / CWE-404
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Status: Not defined

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Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: gitlab.com

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Advisory: gitlab.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2023-40711 (🔍)

Entryinfo

Created: 08/20/2023 08:49 AM
Updated: 09/13/2023 05:49 PM
Changes: 08/20/2023 08:49 AM (39), 09/13/2023 05:49 PM (11)
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