CVE-2021-20234 (GCVE-0-2021-20234)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-01 13:46 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:37
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An uncontrolled resource consumption (memory leak) flaw was found in the ZeroMQ client in versions before 4.3.3 in src/pipe.cpp. This issue causes a client that connects to multiple malicious or compromised servers to crash. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.
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n/a zeromq Affected: zeromq 4.3.3
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