Resource Exhaustion Affecting kernel-headers package, versions <0:5.14.0-284.16.1.el9_2


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.35% (73rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL9-KERNELHEADERS-6229458
  • published6 Feb 2024
  • disclosed4 Apr 2023

Introduced: 4 Apr 2023

CVE-2023-24534  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade RHEL:9 kernel-headers to version 0:5.14.0-284.16.1.el9_2 or higher.
This issue was patched in RHSA-2023:3366.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream kernel-headers package and not the kernel-headers package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

HTTP and MIME header parsing can allocate large amounts of memory, even when parsing small inputs, potentially leading to a denial of service. Certain unusual patterns of input data can cause the common function used to parse HTTP and MIME headers to allocate substantially more memory than required to hold the parsed headers. An attacker can exploit this behavior to cause an HTTP server to allocate large amounts of memory from a small request, potentially leading to memory exhaustion and a denial of service. With fix, header parsing now correctly allocates only the memory required to hold parsed headers.

CVSS Scores

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