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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-9516: Security patch for nginx (ALAS-2019-1299)

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Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2019-9516: Security patch for nginx (ALAS-2019-1299)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
08/13/2019
Created
10/08/2019
Added
10/04/2019
Modified
10/14/2022

Description

Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to a header leak, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker sends a stream of headers with a 0-length header name and 0-length header value, optionally Huffman encoded into 1-byte or greater headers. Some implementations allocate memory for these headers and keep the allocation alive until the session dies. This can consume excess memory.

Solution(s)

  • amazon-linux-upgrade-nginx

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