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Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CVE-2008-3502

Medium
4/10

Summary

Unspecified vulnerability in Best Practical Solutions RT 3.0.0 through 3.6.6 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (CPU or memory consumption) via unspecified vectors related to the Devel-StackTrace module for Perl. It was fixed in version 1.19 on the Devel-StackTrace module.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-400 - Uncontrolled resource consumption

An uncontrolled resource allocation attack (also known as resource exhaustion attack) triggers unauthorized overconsumption of the limited resources in an application, such as memory, file system storage, database connection pool entries, and CPU. This may lead to denial of service for valid users and degradation of the application's functionality as well as that of the host operating system.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published