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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-26691: Important: httpd:2.4 security update (ALSA-2021-3816)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2021-26691: Important: httpd:2.4 security update (ALSA-2021-3816)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
06/10/2021
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
09/15/2022

Description

In Apache HTTP Server versions 2.4.0 to 2.4.46 a specially crafted SessionHeader sent by an origin server could cause a heap overflow

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-mod_http2
  • alma-upgrade-mod_md

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