CVE-2018-12545

In Eclipse Jetty version 9.3.x and 9.4.x, the server is vulnerable to Denial of Service conditions if a remote client sends either large SETTINGs frames container containing many settings, or many small SETTINGs frames. The vulnerability is due to the additional CPU and memory allocations required to handle changed settings.

This issue affects the versions of jetty which is embedded in the nutch package as shipped with Red Hat Satellite 5. The jetty server is not exposed, as such exploitation is difficult, Red Hat Product Security has rated this issue as having security impact of Low in the context of Red Hat Satellite 5. A future update may address this issue. For additional information, refer to the Issue Severity Classification: https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/.

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