{"id":"CVE-2017-12174","details":"It was found that when Artemis and HornetQ before 2.4.0 are configured with UDP discovery and JGroups discovery a huge byte array is created when receiving an unexpected multicast message. This may result in a heap memory exhaustion, full GC, or OutOfMemoryError.","aliases":["GHSA-gc96-h5pr-839j"],"modified":"2026-03-20T11:18:56.095447Z","published":"2018-03-07T22:29:00.243Z","references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rb2fd3bf2dce042e0ab3f3c94c4767c96bb2e7e6737624d63162df36d%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rc96ad63f148f784c84ea7f0a178c84a8985c6afccabbcd9847a82088%40%3Ccommits.activemq.apache.org%3E"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0479"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0480"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0269"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0270"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0271"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0275"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0481"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0268"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0478"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2017-12174"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/apache/activemq-artemis","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"ec63189a0a8235fc0436d9554bcdf323944e1bf6"},{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"ec63189a0a8235fc0436d9554bcdf323944e1bf6"}],"database_specific":{"versions":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.4.0"},{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.4.0"}]}}],"versions":["1.0.0","1.1.0","1.2.0","1.3.0","1.4.0","1.5.0","1.5.1","2.0.0","2.1.0","2.2.0","2.3.0"],"database_specific":{"unresolved_ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.4.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"7.1.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"7.1.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.0.0"}]},{"events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"last_affected":"6.4.0"}]}],"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-12174.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.5","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}