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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-17189) ELSA-2020-4751: httpd:2.4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

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Oracle Linux: (CVE-2018-17189) ELSA-2020-4751: httpd:2.4 security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/22/2019
Created
11/14/2020
Added
11/12/2020
Modified
11/23/2022

Description

In Apache HTTP server versions 2.4.37 and prior, by sending request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources, the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data. This affects only HTTP/2 (mod_http2) connections.

Solution(s)

  • oracle-linux-upgrade-httpd
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-httpd-devel
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-httpd-filesystem
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-httpd-manual
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-httpd-tools
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mod_http2
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mod_ldap
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mod_md
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mod_proxy_html
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mod_session
  • oracle-linux-upgrade-mod_ssl

References

  • ELSA-2020-4751
  • USN-3937-1
  • CVE-2018-17189

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