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GHSA-8jq6-w5cg-wm45
No affected components available
Impact
Specially crafted InventoryTransactionPackets sent by malicious clients were able to exploit the behaviour of InventoryTransaction->findResultItem() and cause it to take an abnormally long time to execute (causing an apparent server freeze).
The affected code is intended to compact conflicting InventoryActions which are in the same InventoryTransaction by flattening them into a single action. When multiple pathways to a result existed, the complexity of this flattening became exponential.
The problem was fixed by bailing when ambiguities are detected.
At the time of writing, this exploit is being used in the wild by attackers to deny service to servers.
Patches
Upgrade to 3.15.4 or newer.
Workarounds
No practical workarounds are possible, short of backporting the fix or implementing checks in a plugin listening to DataPacketReceiveEvent.
References
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For more information
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Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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