CVE-2024-1023 Information

Description

A vulnerability in the Eclipse Vert.x toolkit results in a memory leak due to using Netty FastThreadLocal data structures. Specifically when the Vert.x HTTP client establishes connections to different hosts triggering the memory leak. The leak can be accelerated with intimate runtime knowledge allowing an attacker to exploit this vulnerability. For instance a server accepting arbitrary internet addresses could serve as an attack vector by connecting to these addresses thereby accelerating the memory leak.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-1023 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2260840 https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/issues/5078 https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/pull/5080 https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vert.x/pull/5082