CVE-2023-46120

NameCVE-2023-46120
DescriptionThe RabbitMQ Java client library allows Java and JVM-based applications to connect to and interact with RabbitMQ nodes. `maxBodyLebgth` was not used when receiving Message objects. Attackers could send a very large Message causing a memory overflow and triggering an OOM Error. Users of RabbitMQ may suffer from DoS attacks from RabbitMQ Java client which will ultimately exhaust the memory of the consumer. This vulnerability was patched in version 5.18.0.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, ENISA, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Debian ELTS, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1150002

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
rabbitmq-java-client (PTS)bookworm, trixie5.0.0-1.1vulnerable
sid5.0.0-2vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
rabbitmq-java-clientsource(unstable)(unfixed)1150002

Notes

https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/security/advisories/GHSA-mm8h-8587-p46h
https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/issues/1062
Fixed by: https://github.com/rabbitmq/rabbitmq-java-client/commit/714aae602dcae6cb4b53cadf009323ebac313cc8 (v5.18.0)

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