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SUSE: CVE-2018-17189: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

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SUSE: CVE-2018-17189: SUSE Linux Security Advisory

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/22/2019
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/27/2019
Modified
10/22/2021

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)

  • suse-upgrade-apache2
  • suse-upgrade-apache2-devel
  • suse-upgrade-apache2-doc
  • suse-upgrade-apache2-event
  • suse-upgrade-apache2-example-pages
  • suse-upgrade-apache2-prefork
  • suse-upgrade-apache2-utils
  • suse-upgrade-apache2-worker

References

  • SUSE-SU-2019:0498-1
  • SUSE-SU-2019:0504-1
  • USN-3937-1
  • CVE-2018-17189

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