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barrier/doc/newsfragments/enforce-maximum-message-length.bugfix
Povilas Kanapickas e33c81b835 lib: Enforce a maximum length of input messages
This commit is the 1/3 part of the fix for the following security
vulnerability:
 - CVE-2021-42076 DoS via excess length messages

The issue has been reported by Matthias Gerstner <mgerstner@suse.de>.
2021-11-01 05:18:51 +02:00

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SECURITY ISSUE
Barrier will now enforce a maximum length of input messages (fixes CVE-2021-42076).
Previously it was possible for a malicious client or server to send excessive length messages
leading to denial of service by resource exhaustion.