# CVE-2018-10237: Unbounded memory allocation in Google Guava 11.0 through 24.x before 24.1.1 allows remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks aga

- Also known as: GHSA-MVR2-9PJ6-7W5J
- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Fixed in: 24.1.1-android
- Published: 2018-04-26 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported
- com.google.guava:guava (Maven): from 11.0, fixed in 24.1.1-android
- com.google.guava:guava-jdk5 (Maven): through 17.0
- com.googlecode.guava-osgi:guava-osgi (Maven): through 11.0.1
- de.mhus.ports:vaadin-shared-deps (Maven): through 7.4.0
- org.hudsonci.lib.guava:guava (Maven): through 14.0.1-h-3
- org.sonatype.sisu:sisu-guava (Maven): 0.11.1

## Description

Unbounded memory allocation in Google Guava 11.0 through 24.x before 24.1.1 allows remote attackers to conduct denial of service attacks against servers that depend on this library and deserialize attacker-provided data, because the AtomicDoubleArray class (when serialized with Java serialization) and the CompoundOrdering class (when serialized with GWT serialization) perform eager allocation without appropriate checks on what a client has sent and whether the data size is reasonable.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, com.google.guava:guava, com.google.guava:guava-jdk5 or the other affected packages, upgrade to a fixed version (24.1.1-android) per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2428
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2740
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2741
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2742
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2598
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2643
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2424
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2423
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2425
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2927
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1041707
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2743
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/cc48fe770c45a74dc3b37ed0817393e0c96701fc49bc431ed922f3cc%40%3Chdfs-dev.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/19fa48533bc7ea1accf6b12746a74ed888ae6e49a5cf81ae4f807495%40%3Ccommon-dev.hadoop.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/ff8dcfe29377088ab655fda9d585dccd5b1f07fabd94ae84fd60a7f8%40%3Ccommits.pulsar.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3ddd79c801edd99c0978e83dbe2168ebd36fd42acfa5dac38fb03dd6%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/3d5dbdd92ac9ceaef90e40f78599f9109f2f345252e0ac9d98e7e084%40%3Cgitbox.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/33c6bccfeb7adf644d4d79894ca8f09370be6ed4b20632c2e228d085%40%3Ccommits.cassandra.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/053d9ce4d579b02203db18545fee5e33f35f2932885459b74d1e4272%40%3Cissues.activemq.apache.org%3E
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2858
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/b0656d359c7d40ec9f39c8cc61bca66802ef9a2a12ee199f5b0c1442%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3149
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/519eb0fd45642dcecd9ff74cb3e71c20a4753f7d82e2f07864b5108f%40%3Cdev.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/f9bc3e55f4e28d1dcd1a69aae6d53e609a758e34d2869b4d798e13cc%40%3Cissues.drill.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r27eb79a87a760335226dbfa6a7b7bffea539a535f8e80c41e482106d%40%3Cdev.cxf.apache.org%3E

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