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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-3833: Moderate: openwsman security update (ALSA-2020-4689)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2019-3833: Moderate: openwsman security update (ALSA-2020-4689)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
03/14/2019
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/20/2022

Description

Openwsman, versions up to and including 2.6.9, are vulnerable to infinite loop in process_connection() when parsing specially crafted HTTP requests. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can exploit this vulnerability by sending malicious HTTP request to cause denial of service to openwsman server.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-libwsman-devel
  • alma-upgrade-libwsman1
  • alma-upgrade-openwsman-client
  • alma-upgrade-openwsman-python3
  • alma-upgrade-openwsman-server

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