CVE-2023-6180 — Resource exhaustion via memory leak in tokio-boring
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…
Published: 2023-12-05 · CVSS: 5.3 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7