CVE-2023-6180 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2023-6180

Resource exhaustion via memory leak in tokio-boring

Vulnerability Description

The tokio-boring library in version 4.0.0 is affected by a memory leak issue that can lead to excessive resource consumption and potential DoS by resource exhaustion. The set_ex_data function used by the library did not deallocate memory used by pre-existing data in memory each time after completing a TLS connection causing the program to consume more resources with each new connection.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • Eric Rosenberg

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

tokio-boring
Vulnerable Versions:
4.0.0

Timeline

Official Publish: December 5th, 2023
Last Modified: August 2nd, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-400 CWE-404

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact
T1498 Network Denial of Service
Impact
T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1046 Network Service Discovery
Discovery