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Red Hat: CVE-2018-17189: CVE-2018-17189 httpd: mod_http2: DoS via slow, unneeded request bodies (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2018-17189: CVE-2018-17189 httpd: mod_http2: DoS via slow, unneeded request bodies (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/30/2019
Created
11/06/2020
Added
11/05/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

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)

  • redhat-upgrade-httpd
  • redhat-upgrade-httpd-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-httpd-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-httpd-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-httpd-filesystem
  • redhat-upgrade-httpd-manual
  • redhat-upgrade-httpd-tools
  • redhat-upgrade-httpd-tools-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_http2
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_http2-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_http2-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_ldap
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_ldap-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_md
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_md-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_md-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_proxy_html
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_proxy_html-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_session
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_session-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_ssl
  • redhat-upgrade-mod_ssl-debuginfo

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