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High ALAS2-2019-1342 3 CVEs

Important: mod_http2 security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 28, 2019 · Updated Oct 30, 2019

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2019-9517: Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to unconstrained interal data buffering, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker opens the HTTP/2 window so the peer can send without constraint; however, they leave the TCP window closed so the peer cannot actually write (many of) the bytes on the wire. The attacker then sends a stream of requests for a large response object. Depending on how the servers queue the responses, this can consume excess memory, CPU, or both. 99999: CVE-2019-9517 HTTP/2: request for large response leads to denial of service CVE-2019-9516: Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. Some implementations allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocation alive until the session dies. This can consume excess memory. 1741864: CVE-2019-9516 HTTP/2: 0-length headers lead to denial of service CVE-2019-9511: Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manipulate window size and stream priority to force the server to queue the data in 1-byte chunks. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both. 1741860: CVE-2019-9511 HTTP/2: large amount of data requests leads to denial of service

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 mod_http2 0:1.15.3-2.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mod_http2-debuginfo 0:1.15.3-2.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 3

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-9511 Public exploit EPSS 60%

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manip…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-9516 EPSS 57%

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. S…

  • High 7.5
    CVE-2019-9517 EPSS 27%

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to unconstrained interal data buffering, potentially leading to a denial of service

    Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to unconstrained interal data buffering, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker opens the HTTP/2 window so the peer can send without constraint; however, they leave the TCP window closed so the peer…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-9511.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-9516.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2019-9517.html