CVE-2023-6180
CVSS 3.1 Score 5.3 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Dec 5, 2023
Updated: Dec 12, 2023
CWE ID 404
CWE ID 400
CWE ID 401
Summary
CVE-2023-6180 is a memory leak vulnerability affecting version 4.0.0 of the tokio-boring library. This issue results in excessive resource consumption, increasing the risk of Denial of Service (DoS) attacks through resource exhaustion. Specifically, the set_ex_data function in the library fails to deallocate memory used by pre-existing data after completing a TLS connection, causing the program to consume progressively more resources with each new connection.
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Affected Vendors
- CloudFlare
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