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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16843: nginx security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2018-16843: nginx security update

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
11/07/2018
Created
10/01/2019
Added
09/30/2019
Modified
09/30/2019

Description

nginx before versions 1.15.6 and 1.14.1 has a vulnerability in the implementation of HTTP/2 that can allow for excessive memory consumption. This issue affects nginx compiled with the ngx_http_v2_module (not compiled by default) if the 'http2' option of the 'listen' directive is used in a configuration file.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-nginx
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-nginx-all-modules
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-nginx-filesystem
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-nginx-mod-http-image-filter
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-nginx-mod-http-perl
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-nginx-mod-http-xslt-filter
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-nginx-mod-mail
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp8-upgrade-nginx-mod-stream

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