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Medium ALAS2023-2024-672 1 CVE

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

Published Jul 18, 2024 · Updated Jul 22, 2024

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 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 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 ecs-init 0:1.84.0-1.amzn2023

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2023-45288.html