ALAS2023-2024-620 — Important: ecs-init security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-41723: http2/hpack: avoid quadratic complexity in hpack decoding

Fixed packages 1

Release	Package	Fixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023	ecs-init	0:1.70.1-1.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 1

High 7.5

CVE-2022-41723

Denial of service via crafted HTTP/2 stream in net/http and golang.org/x/net

A maliciously crafted HTTP/2 stream could cause excessive CPU consumption in the HPACK decoder, sufficient to cause a denial of service from a small number of small requests.

Go standard library golang.org/x/net net/http golang.org/x/net/http2 Debian Ubuntu Azure Linux Alpine Wolfi Go

Feb 28, 2023

References

web
https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2022-41723.html

Important: ecs-init security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Summary

Fixed packages 1

Vulnerabilities 1

Denial of service via crafted HTTP/2 stream in net/http and golang.org/x/net

References