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.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-3262 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-pjrj-h4fg-6gm4 tokio-boring vulnerable to resource exhaustion via memory leak
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: cloudflare

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Updated: 2024-08-02T08:21:17.825Z

Reserved: 2023-11-16T19:15:23.367Z

Link: CVE-2023-6180

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Status : Modified

Published: 2023-12-05T15:15:08.703

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:43:18.253

Link: CVE-2023-6180

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