CVE-2018-10237 — Unbounded memory allocation in Google Guava 11
Unbounded memory allocation in Google Guava 11.0 through 24.x before 24.1.1 allows remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks against servers that depend on this library and deserialize attacker-provided data, because the AtomicDoubleArray class (when serialized with J
Published
2018-04-26T21:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-05T07:32:01.750Z
01What is this vulnerability?
Unbounded memory allocation in Google Guava 11.0 through 24.x before 24.1.1 allows remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks against servers that depend on this library and deserialize attacker-provided data, because the AtomicDoubleArray class (when serialized with Java serialization) and the CompoundOrdering class (when serialized with GWT serialization) perform eager allocation…
02Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|
| n | a / n/a | n/a |
03Active exploitation status
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
04Recommended remediation
- Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
- Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
- Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.
05Technical details
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
06Detection signatures
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07Related CVEs
No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.
08Timeline
- Published: 2018-04-26T21:00:00.000Z
- Last modified: 2024-08-05T07:32:01.750Z
09References
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2428
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2740
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2741
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2742
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2598
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2643
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2424
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2423
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2425
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
- www.securitytracker.com — http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041707
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2743
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cc48fe770c45a74dc3b37ed0817393e0c96701fc49b…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/19fa48533bc7ea1accf6b12746a74ed888ae6e49a5c…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd9…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3ddd79c801edd99c0978e83dbe2168ebd36fd42acfa…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d5dbdd92ac9ceaef90e40f78599f9109f2f345252e…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/33c6bccfeb7adf644d4d79894ca8f09370be6ed4b20…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/053d9ce4d579b02203db18545fee5e33f35f2932885…
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2858
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12e…
- access.redhat.com — https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3149
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d28…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r27eb79a87a760335226dbfa6a7b7bffea539a535f8…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r95799427b335807a4c54776908125c3e66597b6584…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc78f6e84f82cc662860e96526d8ab969f34dbe12dc…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ra0adb9653c7de9539b93cc8434143b655f753b9f60…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rd0c8ec6e044aa2958dd0549ebf8ecead7f5968c947…
- lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r38e2ab87528d3c904e7fac496e8fd766b9277656ff…
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