vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-12121: Security patch for http-parser (ALAS-2020-1359)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Nov 28, 2018
Added
Apr 24, 2020
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

Node.js: All versions prior to Node.js 6.15.0, 8.14.0, 10.14.0 and 11.3.0: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers: By using a combination of many requests with maximum sized headers (almost 80 KB per connection), and carefully timed completion of the headers, it is possible to cause the HTTP server to abort from heap allocation failure. Attack potential is mitigated by the use of a load balancer or other proxy layer.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-http-parser
Title
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