CVE-2019-0205: Apache Thrift: potential DoS when processing untrusted Thrift payload

[Jens Geyer <jensgeyer () hotmail com>]

CVE-2019-0205: potential DoS when processing untrusted Thrift payloads

Severity: Important

Vendor:
The Apache Software Foundation

Versions Affected:
Apache Thrift up to and including 0.12.0

Description:
A server or client may run into an endless loop when feed with specific input data.

Because the issue had already been partially fixed by THRIFT-4024 in version 0.11.0, depending on the installed version 
it affects only certain language bindings.

Mitigation:
Upgrade to version 0.13.0

Credit:
This issue was discovered by Hasnain Lakhani of Facebook.

On behalf of the Apache Thrift PMC,
Jens Geyer