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Ubuntu: USN-3937-1 (CVE-2018-17189): Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3937-1 (CVE-2018-17189): Apache HTTP Server vulnerabilities

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
01/22/2019
Created
04/22/2019
Added
04/11/2019
Modified
09/12/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-apache2-bin

References

  • USN-3937-1
  • USN-3937-2
  • CVE-2018-17189

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