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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-19115: Security patch for keepalived (ALAS-2019-1154)

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Amazon Linux AMI 2: CVE-2018-19115: Security patch for keepalived (ALAS-2019-1154)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
11/08/2018
Created
05/08/2020
Added
04/27/2020
Modified
09/30/2022

Description

keepalived before 2.0.7 has a heap-based buffer overflow when parsing HTTP status codes resulting in DoS or possibly unspecified other impact, because extract_status_code in lib/html.c has no validation of the status code and instead writes an unlimited amount of data to the heap.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-keepalived
  • amazon-linux-ami-2-upgrade-keepalived-debuginfo

References

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