CVE-2010-4265 Denial of service in n/a

Low 2.6 Published Updated

Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in JBoss Remoting by establishing a connection without sending data, requiring a patch update.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2010-4265?

CVE-2010-4265 is a low-severity denial of service vulnerability in Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, published on 30 Dec 2010. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-4265?

It affects 3 products.

Linux distribution packages (2)
jboss-remoting Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:4.3.0::el4All versions0:2.2.3-4.SP3.ep1.1.el4
jboss-remoting Red Hat:jboss_enterprise_application_platform:4.3.0::el5All versions0:2.2.3-4.SP3.ep1.1.el5

Products include Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform, Redhat Jboss Enterprise Web Platform, Redhat Jboss Remoting.

How do I fix CVE-2010-4265?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2010-4265 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2010-4265 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Jboss Enterprise Application Platform vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-q8wr-qfh4-ggjg, RHSA-2010:0964.

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