Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting httpd-filesystem package, versions <0:2.4.37-51.0.1.module+el8.7.0+20778+02173b8e


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    34.77% (98th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ORACLE8-HTTPDFILESYSTEM-3119160
  • published 16 Nov 2022
  • disclosed 9 Jun 2022

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:8 httpd-filesystem to version 0:2.4.37-51.0.1.module+el8.7.0+20778+02173b8e or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2022-7647.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream httpd-filesystem package and not the httpd-filesystem package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

If Apache HTTP Server 2.4.53 is configured to do transformations with mod_sed in contexts where the input to mod_sed may be very large, mod_sed may make excessively large memory allocations and trigger an abort.

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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NVD

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

5.9 medium
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Red Hat

7.5 high