vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2018-1303: Security patch for httpd24 (ALAS-2018-1004)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Mar 23, 2018
Added
May 4, 2018
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

A specially crafted HTTP request header could have crashed the Apache HTTP Server prior to version 2.4.30 due to an out of bound read while preparing data to be cached in shared memory. It could be used as a Denial of Service attack against users of mod_cache_socache. The vulnerability is considered as low risk since mod_cache_socache is not widely used, mod_cache_disk is not concerned by this vulnerability.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-httpd24
Title
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