Summary
Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-45288: An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a request's headers exceed MaxHeaderBytes, no memory is allocated to store the excess headers, but they are still parsed. This permits an attacker to cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data, all associated with a request which is going to be rejected. These headers can include Huffman-encoded data which is significantly more expensive for the receiver to decode than for an attacker to send. The fix sets a limit on the amount of excess header frames we will process before closing a connection.
Fixed packages 2
| Release | Package | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Amazon Linux · 2 | cni-plugins | 0:1.2.0-1.amzn2.0.6 |
| Amazon Linux · 2 | cni-plugins-debuginfo | 0:1.2.0-1.amzn2.0.6 |
Vulnerabilities 1
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High 7.5
HTTP/2 CONTINUATION flood in net/http
An attacker may cause an HTTP/2 endpoint to read arbitrary amounts of header data by sending an excessive number of CONTINUATION frames. Maintaining HPACK state requires parsing and processing all HEADERS and CONTINUATION frames on a connection. When a reques…
References
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web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-45288.html