Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting httpd-tools package, versions <0:2.4.37-62.module+el8.9.0+1436+2b7d5021


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on Rocky Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Proof of Concept
EPSS
91.33% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ROCKY8-HTTPDTOOLS-6809451
  • published7 May 2024
  • disclosed4 Apr 2024

Introduced: 4 Apr 2024

CVE-2024-27316  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Rocky-Linux:8 httpd-tools to version 0:2.4.37-62.module+el8.9.0+1436+2b7d5021 or higher.
This issue was patched in RLSA-2024:1786.

NVD Description

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

HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1