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Mageia Update 2024-0118: Apache 2.4.59 Moderate Memory Exhaustion Fix

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Calendar Grey April 10, 2024
Dist Mageia Esm H88
Nginx has been upgraded to version 1.24.0 addressing critical flaws such as header injection and resource exhaustion vulnerabilities.
Apache has been updated to version 2.4.59 to fix CVE-2024-27316, CVE-2024-24795 and CVE-2023-38709

Summary

Apache has been updated to version 2.4.59 to fix CVE-2024-27316, CVE-2024-24795 and CVE-2023-38709. CVE-2024-27316: Apache HTTP Server: HTTP/2 DoS by memory exhaustion on endless continuation frames (cve.mitre.org) HTTP/2 incoming headers exceeding the limit are temporarily buffered in nghttp2 in order to generate an informative HTTP 413 response. If a client does not stop sending headers, this leads to memory exhaustion. Credits: Bartek Nowotarski (https://nowotarski.info/) CVE-2024-24795: Apache HTTP Server: HTTP Response Splitting in multiple modules (cve.mitre.org) HTTP Response splitting in multiple modules in Apache HTTP Server allows an attacker that can inject malicious response headers into backend applications to cause an HTTP desynchronization attack. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 2.4.59, which fixes this issue. Credits: Keran Mu, Tsinghua University and Zhongguancun Laboratory. CVE-2023-38709: Apache HTTP Server: HTTP response splitting (cve.mitre.org) Faul...

References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33059

- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/04/03/16

- https://nowotarski.info/http2-continuation-flood/

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-27316

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-24795

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-38709

Resolution

SRPMS

- 9/core/apache-2.4.59-1.mga9

Publication date: 10 Apr 2024
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2024-0118.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2024-27316, CVE-2024-24795, CVE-2023-38709

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