High
Security advisory
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.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-12174
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:06 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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.
osv:CVE-2017-12174
Complete source record
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