Denial of Service Vulnerability in Logstash Netflow Codec Plugin

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Logstash Netflow Codec Plugin

CVE-2016-10363 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Logstash versions prior to 2.3.3, when using the Netflow Codec plugin, a remote attacker crafting malicious Netflow v5, Netflow v9 or IPFIX packets could perform a denial of service attack on the Logstash instance. The errors resulting from these crafted inputs are not handled by the codec and can cause the Logstash process to exit.

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