CVE-2012-4458

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 6.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2013-03-14 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

The AMQP type decoder in Apache Qpid 0.20 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and server crash) via a large number of zero width elements in the client-properties map in a connection.start-ok message.

Affected products

Apache Qpid: through 0.20; 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.9, 0.10 (+9)

References

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0561.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0562.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52516
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1453031
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861234
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/QPID-4629
https://issues.apache.org/jira/issues/?jql=fixVersion%20%3D%20%220.21%22%20AND%20project%20%3D%20QPID
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0561.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2013-0562.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/52516
http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1453031
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=861234

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