CVE-2023-6180 Information

Description

The tokio-boring library in version 4.0.0 is affected by a memory leak issue that can lead to excessive resource consumption and potential DoS by resource exhaustion. The set_ex_data function used by the library did not deallocate memory used by pre-existing data in memory each time after completing a TLS connection causing the program to consume more resources with each new connection.

Reference

https://github.com/cloudflare/boring/security/advisories/GHSA-pjrj-h4fg-6gm4