Service interruption via excessive memory allocation
Published Mar 28, 2022 · Updated Aug 5, 2024
Denial of service in the Portscan component of WEKA Media INTEREST Security Scanner 1.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to interrupt service. The Portscan component allocates excessive memory after processing an undisclosed input, but the public record identifies neither the affected code nor the input format. Exploitation requires the scanner to process attacker-controlled network input during a port scan; the documented consequence is availability loss only.
Summary
What happened
Denial of service in the Portscan component of WEKA Media INTEREST Security Scanner 1.8 and earlier allows remote attackers to interrupt service. The Portscan component allocates excessive memory after processing an undisclosed input, but the public record identifies neither the affected code nor the input format. Exploitation requires the scanner to process attacker-controlled network input during a port scan; the documented consequence is availability loss only.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2017-20016
- Published
- Mar 28, 2022
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Vendor
- WEKA Media
- Product
- INTEREST Security Scanner
- Classifications
- CWE-789, CWE-770, T1499
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Mar 28, 2022CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 5, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
Exploitability
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- Affected versionversion=1.0
- Affected versionversion=1.1
- Affected versionversion=1.2
- Affected versionversion=1.3
- Affected versionversion=1.4
- Affected versionversion=1.5
- Affected versionversion=1.6
- Affected versionversion=1.7
- Affected versionversion=1.8
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