Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting perf-debuginfo package, versions <0:4.14.123-86.109.amzn1


Severity

Recommended
critical

Based on Amazon Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
96.64% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-AMZN201803-PERFDEBUGINFO-1718255
  • published27 Sept 2021
  • disclosed19 Jun 2019

Introduced: 19 Jun 2019

CVE-2019-11479  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Amazon-Linux:2018.03 perf-debuginfo to version 0:4.14.123-86.109.amzn1 or higher.
This issue was patched in ALAS-2019-1222.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream perf-debuginfo package and not the perf-debuginfo package as distributed by Amazon-Linux. See How to fix? for Amazon-Linux:2018.03 relevant fixed versions and status.

Jonathan Looney discovered that the Linux kernel default MSS is hard-coded to 48 bytes. This allows a remote peer to fragment TCP resend queues significantly more than if a larger MSS were enforced. A remote attacker could use this to cause a denial of service. This has been fixed in stable kernel releases 4.4.182, 4.9.182, 4.14.127, 4.19.52, 5.1.11, and is fixed in commits 967c05aee439e6e5d7d805e195b3a20ef5c433d6 and 5f3e2bf008c2221478101ee72f5cb4654b9fc363.

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