HAProxyMessageDecoder Stack Exhaustion DoS
### Impact A StackOverflowError can be raised when parsing a malformed crafted message due to an infinite recursion. ### Patches Users should upgrade to 4.1.86.Final. ### Workarounds There is no workaround, except using a custom HaProxyMessageDecoder. ### References When parsing a TLV with type = PP2_TYPE_SSL, the value can be again a TLV with type = PP2_TYPE_SSL and so on. The only limitation of the recursion is that the TLV length cannot be bigger than 0xffff because it is encoded in an unsigned short type. Providing a TLV with a nesting level that is large enough will lead to raising of a StackOverflowError. The StackOverflowError will be caught if HAProxyMessageDecoder is used as part of Netty’s ChannelPipeline, but using it directly without the ChannelPipeline will lead to a thrown exception / crash. ### For more information If you have any questions or comments about this advisory: * Open an issue in [netty](https://github.com/netty/netty)
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Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2022-41881US | high7.5 | — | ||
Netty project is an event-driven asynchronous network application framework. In versions prior to 4.1.86.Final, a StackOverflowError can be raised when parsing a malformed crafted… | ||||
references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- https://github.com/netty/nettyPACKAGE
- https://github.com/netty/netty/security/advisories/GHSA-fx2c-96vj-985vWEB
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/01/msg00008.htmlWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-41881ADVISORY
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20230113-0004WEB
- https://www.debian.org/security/2023/dsa-5316WEB
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