Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2 package, versions <0:1.15.19-32.el8jbcs


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.95% (89th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-JBCSHTTPD24MODHTTP2-6114042
  • published8 Dec 2023
  • disclosed13 Sept 2023

Introduced: 13 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-38039  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:8 jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2 to version 0:1.15.19-32.el8jbcs or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:7625.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2 package and not the jbcs-httpd24-mod_http2 package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

When curl retrieves an HTTP response, it stores the incoming headers so that they can be accessed later via the libcurl headers API.

However, curl did not have a limit in how many or how large headers it would accept in a response, allowing a malicious server to stream an endless series of headers and eventually cause curl to run out of heap memory.

CVSS Scores

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