Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting jbcs-httpd24-httpd-selinux package, versions <0:2.4.51-39.el7jbcs


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.7% (75th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-JBCSHTTPD24HTTPDSELINUX-5666622
  • published17 Feb 2023
  • disclosed15 Feb 2023

Introduced: 15 Feb 2023

CVE-2023-23916  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:7 jbcs-httpd24-httpd-selinux to version 0:2.4.51-39.el7jbcs or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:3354.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jbcs-httpd24-httpd-selinux package and not the jbcs-httpd24-httpd-selinux package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

An allocation of resources without limits or throttling vulnerability exists in curl <v7.88.0 based on the "chained" HTTP compression algorithms, meaning that a server response can be compressed multiple times and potentially with differentalgorithms. The number of acceptable "links" in this "decompression chain" wascapped, but the cap was implemented on a per-header basis allowing a maliciousserver to insert a virtually unlimited number of compression steps simply byusing many headers. The use of such a decompression chain could result in a "malloc bomb", making curl end up spending enormous amounts of allocated heap memory, or trying to and returning out of memory errors.

CVSS Base Scores

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