Denial of Service via Unbounded Multi-Packet Reassembly in Vert.x MySQL Client
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## CVE record information
**Project name:** Eclipse Vert.x
**Project id:** rt.vertx
**Versions affected:**
\[4.0.0, 4.5.34\] or \[5.0.0,5.0.12\] or \[5.1.0,5.1.9\] or \[5.2.0, 5.2.0\]
**Common Vulnerability Scoring System:**
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
**Summary:**
In Eclipse Vert.x versions \[4.0.0, 4.5.34\] or \[5.0.0,5.0.12\] or \[5.1.0,5.1.9\] or \[5.2.0, 5.2.0\], the MySQL message decoder aggregates inbound multi-packet payloads into a composite direct-memory buffer without any cumulative size limit. A malicious, compromised, or man-in-the-middle MySQL server can send a continuous stream of packets with the maximum payload length (0xFFFFFF), preventing the end-of-message condition from being reached, causing unbounded direct-memory allocation on the client and leading to an out-of-memory crash. This occurs before authentication completes.
The impacted component is io.vertx:vertx-mysql-client.
**Links:**
https://github.com/eclipse-vertx/vertx-sql-client/security/advisories/GHSA-75hv-9xj3-3cr8
**Credits:**
Thomas Segismont.
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