Red Hat JBoss Remoting up to 2.2.2 4.3.0.CP09 denial of service

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Red Hat JBoss Remoting up to 2.2.2. The impacted element is an unknown function of the file 4.3.0.CP09. Such manipulation of the argument org.jboss.remoting.transport.bisocket.BisocketServerInvoker$SecondaryServerSocketThread.run leads to denial of service. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2010-4265. There is no available exploit. A patch should be applied to remediate this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat JBoss Remoting up to 2.2.2 (Application Server Software). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the file 4.3.0.CP09. The manipulation of the argument org.jboss.remoting.transport.bisocket.BisocketServerInvoker$SecondaryServerSocketThread.run with an unknown input leads to a denial of service vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-404. The product does not release or incorrectly releases a resource before it is made available for re-use. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

The org.jboss.remoting.transport.bisocket.BisocketServerInvoker$SecondaryServerSocketThread.run method in JBoss Remoting 2.2.x before 2.2.3.SP4 and 2.5.x before 2.5.3.SP2 in Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (aka JBoss EAP or JBEAP) 4.3 through 4.3.0.CP09 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon outage) by establishing a bisocket control connection TCP session, and then not sending any application data, related to a missing CVE-2010-3862 patch. NOTE: this can be considered a duplicate of CVE-2010-3862 because a missing patch should not be assigned a separate CVE identifier.

The weakness was presented 12/30/2010 (Website). The advisory is available at issues.jboss.org. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2010-4265 since 11/16/2010. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Technical details are known, but there is no available exploit.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 63965 (RHEL 4 / 5 : jboss-remoting (RHSA-2010:0964)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family Red Hat Local Security Checks.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (63965) and SecurityTracker (ID 1024840†). See VDB-55895 for similar entry. If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• Application Server Software

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• Red Hat

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• JBoss Remoting

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• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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