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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-24791: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

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Alpine Linux: CVE-2024-24791: Vulnerability in Multiple Components

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
07/02/2024
Created
08/23/2024
Added
08/22/2024
Modified
08/23/2024

Description

The net/http HTTP/1.1 client mishandled the case where a server responds to a request with an "Expect: 100-continue" header with a non-informational (200 or higher) status. This mishandling could leave a client connection in an invalid state, where the next request sent on the connection will fail. An attacker sending a request to a net/http/httputil.ReverseProxy proxy can exploit this mishandling to cause a denial of service by sending "Expect: 100-continue" requests which elicit a non-informational response from the backend. Each such request leaves the proxy with an invalid connection, and causes one subsequent request using that connection to fail.

Solution(s)

  • alpine-linux-upgrade-go

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