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Mageia 6, 7: MGASA-2019-0291 Critical: nghttp2 Denial of Service

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Calendar Grey September 27, 2019
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Mageia 2020-0454 implements changes to OpenSSL to address vulnerabilities associated with cryptographic functions and potential man-in-the-middle threats for secure communications.
The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities: Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leadi...

Summary

The updated packages fix security vulnerabilities:
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to window size manipulation and stream prioritization manipulation, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker requests a large amount of data from a specified resource over multiple streams. They manipulate window size and stream priority to force the server to queue the data in 1-byte chunks. Depending on how efficiently this data is queued, this can consume excess CPU, memory, or both. (CVE-2019-9511)
Some HTTP/2 implementations are vulnerable to resource loops, potentially leading to a denial of service. The attacker creates multiple request streams and continually shuffles the priority of the streams in a way that causes substantial churn to the priority tree. This can consume excess CPU. (CVE-2019-9513)

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25424

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2692

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9511

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-9513

Resolution

SRPMS

- 7/core/nghttp2-1.38.0-1.1.mga7

- 6/core/nghttp2-1.9.2-1.1.mga6

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Publication date: 28 Sep 2019
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2019-0291.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2019-9511, CVE-2019-9513

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