Resource Exhaustion Affecting nginx package, versions <1.10.3-1+deb9u2
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN9-NGINX-340969
- published 2 Dec 2018
- disclosed 7 Nov 2018
Introduced: 7 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-16843 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:9 nginx to version 1.10.3-1+deb9u2 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream nginx package and not the nginx package as distributed by Debian.
See How to fix? for Debian:9 relevant fixed versions and status.
nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive memory consumption. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the 'http2' option of the 'listen' directive is used in a configuration file.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16843
- https://support.apple.com/kb/HT212818
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-16843
- https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4335
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2021/Sep/36
- http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx-announce/2018/000220.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-09/msg00035.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16843
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3653
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3680
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3681
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105868
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042038
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-16843
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3812-1/