Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting apache2-devel package, versions <2.4.51-150200.3.62.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS
    0.09% (41st percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-SLES153-APACHE2DEVEL-7148670
  • published 28 May 2024
  • disclosed 27 May 2024

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.3 apache2-devel to version 2.4.51-150200.3.62.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream apache2-devel package and not the apache2-devel package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.3 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 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

7.5 high
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Red Hat

7.5 high