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High · 7.5 CVE-2021-43174 EUVD-2021-2309GHSA-6mv9-qcx2-3hh3

gzip transfer encoding caused out-of-memory crash

Published Nov 9, 2021 · Updated Sep 16, 2024 · Assigned by NLnet Labs

Description

NLnet Labs Routinator versions 0.9.0 up to and including 0.10.1, support the gzip transfer encoding when querying RRDP repositories. This encoding can be used by an RRDP repository to cause an out-of-memory crash in these versions of Routinator. RRDP uses XML which allows arbitrary amounts of white space in the encoded data. The gzip scheme compresses such white space extremely well, leading to very small compressed files that become huge when being decompressed for further processing, big enough that Routinator runs out of memory when parsing input data waiting for the next XML element.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
NLnet Labs Routinator unspecified – ≤ 0.10.1 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 12 cfrpki 1.4.0-1 —
Debian 11 cfrpki 1.4.2-1~deb11u1 DSA-5041-1

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io routinator >= 0.9.0, < 0.10.2 0.10.2 GHSA-6mv9-qcx2-3hh3

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