Debian: DLA-2787-1 High: curl Vulnerability Correction Report

debian lts

October 17, 2021

Two security issue have been discovered in nghttp2: server, proxy and client implementing HTTP/2

Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service debian input validation nghttp2

Summary

CVE-2018-1000168

An Improper Input Validation CWE-20 vulnerability found in ALTSVC frame handling
that can result in segmentation fault leading to denial of service. This attack
appears to be exploitable via network client.

CVE-2020-11080

The overly large HTTP/2 SETTINGS frame payload causes denial of service.
The proof of concept attack involves a malicious client constructing a SETTINGS
frame with a length of 14,400 bytes (2400 individual settings entries) over and over again.
The attack causes the CPU to spike at 100%.

For Debian 9 stretch, these problems have been fixed in version
1.18.1-1+deb9u2.

We recommend that you upgrade your nghttp2 packages.

For the detailed security status of nghttp2 please refer to
its security tracker page at:
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/nghttp2

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