Rhcs: memory leak during https connection leads to denial of service
Summary
An unauthenticated attacker could trigger an Out of Memory condition to crash the Java process for RHCS by repeatedly sending HTTP requests to the TLS endpoint. Depending on how the RHCS server is configured, a manual intervention to restart it may prove necessary. Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Certificate System 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
What this means
In plain English
An unauthenticated attacker could trigger an Out of Memory condition to crash the Java process for RHCS by repeatedly sending HTTP requests to the TLS endpoint. Depending on how the RHCS server is configured, a manual intervention to restart it may prove necessary. Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Certificate System 9; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9. The official description indicates that exploitation does not require prior authentication. Successful exploitation can interrupt the affected service or exhaust resources, reducing availability until the component recovers.
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Affected versions
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Mitigation
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