Eventlet is a concurrent networking library for Python. A websocket peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending very large websocket frames. Malicious peer may exhaust memory on Eventlet side by sending highly compressed data frame. A patch in version 0.31.0 restricts websocket frame to reasonable limits. As a workaround, restricting memory usage via OS limits would help against overall machine exhaustion, but there is no workaround to protect Eventlet process.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-03T18:09:16.080Z
Reserved: 2020-12-22T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2021-21419

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Status : Modified
Published: 2021-05-07T15:15:07.407
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:48:19.403
Link: CVE-2021-21419
