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High ALAS2023-2023-278 1 CVE

Important: nghttp2 security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 3, 2023 · Updated Aug 9, 2023

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-35945: Envoy is a cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. Envoy's HTTP/2 codec may leak a header map and bookkeeping structures upon receiving `RST_STREAM` immediately followed by the `GOAWAY` frames from an upstream server. In nghttp2, cleanup of pending requests due to receipt of the `GOAWAY` frame skips de-allocation of the bookkeeping structure and pending compressed header. The error return [code path] is taken if connection is already marked for not sending more requests due to `GOAWAY` frame. The clean-up code is right after the return statement, causing memory leak. Denial of service through memory exhaustion. This vulnerability was patched in versions(s) 1.26.3, 1.25.8, 1.24.9, 1.23.11.

Fixed packages 6

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 libnghttp2 0:1.55.1-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 libnghttp2-debuginfo 0:1.55.1-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 libnghttp2-devel 0:1.55.1-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nghttp2 0:1.55.1-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nghttp2-debuginfo 0:1.55.1-1.amzn2023.0.1
Amazon Linux · 2023 nghttp2-debugsource 0:1.55.1-1.amzn2023.0.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • High 7.5

    Envoy vulnerable to HTTP/2 memory leak in nghttp2 codec

    Envoy is a cloud-native high-performance edge/middle/service proxy. Envoy’s HTTP/2 codec may leak a header map and bookkeeping structures upon receiving `RST_STREAM` immediately followed by the `GOAWAY` frames from an upstream server. In nghttp2, cleanup of p…

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-35945.html