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High ALAS2-2023-1938 3 CVEs

Important: httpd security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Feb 17, 2023 · Updated Feb 22, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-37436: Prior to Apache HTTP Server 2.4.55, a malicious backend can cause the response headers to be truncated early, resulting in some headers being incorporated into the response body. If the later headers have any security purpose, they will not be interpreted by the client. CVE-2022-36760: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request Smuggling') vulnerability in mod_proxy_ajp of Apache HTTP Server allows an attacker to smuggle requests to the AJP server it forwards requests to. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server Apache HTTP Server 2.4 version 2.4.54 and prior versions. CVE-2006-20001: A carefully crafted If: request header can cause a memory read, or write of a single zero byte, in a pool (heap) memory location beyond the header value sent. This could cause the process to crash. This issue affects Apache HTTP Server 2.4.54 and earlier.

Fixed packages 11

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 httpd 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 httpd-debuginfo 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 httpd-devel 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 httpd-filesystem 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 httpd-manual 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 httpd-tools 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mod_ldap 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mod_md 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mod_proxy_html 1:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mod_session 0:2.4.55-1.amzn2
Amazon Linux · 2 mod_ssl 1:2.4.55-1.amzn2

Vulnerabilities 3

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2006-20001.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-36760.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-37436.html