CVE-2017-12174

7.5 HIGH

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 crea...

Published: 2018-03-07 · Last updated: 2026-06-15

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 7.5 HIGH
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE: CWE-400

Affected products

Vendor	Product
apache	artemis, hornetq, jboss_enterprise_application_platform
redhat	artemis, hornetq, jboss_enterprise_application_platform

Description

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.

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-12174
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481
[Vendor advisory]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174
[Other]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
[Other]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480
[Vendor advisory]https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481
[Vendor advisory]https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174
[Other]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E
[Other]https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E

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