CVE-2023-28507 Memory exhaustion in LZ4 decompression in UniRPC daemon
Attackers can cause denial of service in Rocket UniData and UniVerse by triggering memory exhaustion during LZ4 decompression.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2023-28507?
CVE-2023-28507 is a critical denial of service vulnerability in Rocket Software UniData, published on 29 Mar 2023. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Rocket Software UniData versions prior to 8.2.4 build 3003 and UniVerse versions prior to 11.3.5 build 1001 or 12.2.1 build 2002 suffer from a memory-exhaustion issue, where a decompression routine will allocate increasing amounts of memory until all system memory is exhausted and the forked process crashes.
Weakness: CWE-400
Which versions are affected by CVE-2023-28507?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Rocketsoftware Unidata, Rocketsoftware Universe.
How do I fix CVE-2023-28507?
No fix has been published for CVE-2023-28507 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
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-2023-28507 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2023-28507 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Rocket Software UniData
- CVE-2023-28501 Heap buffer overflow in unirpcd
- CVE-2023-28502 Stack buffer overflow in UniRPC's udadmin_server service
- CVE-2023-28503 Authentication bypass in UniRPC's udadmin service
- CVE-2023-28504 Stack buffer overflow in UniRPC library function
- CVE-2023-28506 Stack buffer overflow in UniRPC service
Sources
Also known as GHSA-pvmm-fgf7-r833.