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Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime Affecting libcurl package, versions <0:8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.7

Severity

 Recommended
medium

Based on Amazon Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.05% (19th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-AMZN2-LIBCURL-6745211
  • published 1 May 2024
  • disclosed 27 Mar 2024
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Introduced: 27 Mar 2024

CVE-2024-2398 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-772 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2 libcurl to version 0:8.3.0-1.amzn2.0.7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS2-2024-2526.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream libcurl package and not the libcurl package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2 relevant fixed versions and status.

When an application tells libcurl it wants to allow HTTP/2 server push, and the amount of received headers for the push surpasses the maximum allowed limit (1000), libcurl aborts the server push. When aborting, libcurl inadvertently does not free all the previously allocated headers and instead leaks the memory. Further, this error condition fails silently and is therefore not easily detected by an application.

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CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Red Hat

7.5 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    None
  • Availability (A)
    None
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SUSE

6.5 medium