CVE-2018-1114 (GCVE-0-2018-1114)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-11 15:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 03:51
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Summary
It was found that URLResource.getLastModified() in Undertow closes the file descriptors only when they are finalized which can cause file descriptors to exhaust. This leads to a file handler leak.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat undertow Affected: n/a
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Date Public
2018-04-21 00:00
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