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FKIE_CVE-2017-12174

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2018-03-07 22:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:02
Summary
It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E

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  "lastModified": "2026-06-17T01:02:50.413",
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