CyberRota Analysis
AI-GeneratedFluentd versions prior to 1.19.3 are vulnerable due to insufficient limits on decompressed payload sizes in the in_http and in_forward plugins, which can lead to memory exhaustion and denial of service. Organizations utilizing Fluentd for event collection and processing should prioritize upgrading to version 1.19.3 or later to mitigate this high-severity risk. This vulnerability poses a significant threat to system stability and availability, particularly for those handling large volumes of compressed data.
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Original NVD Description
Fluentd collects events from various data sources and writes them to files, RDBMS, NoSQL, IaaS, SaaS, Hadoop and so on. Prior to 1.19.3, Fluentd's in_http and in_forward plugins support gzip-compressed data but enforce limits only on compressed payloads through settings such as body_size_limit and chunk_size_limit, allowing crafted compressed payloads to decompress in memory to an excessive size and cause denial of service through memory exhaustion. This issue is fixed in version 1.19.3.
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