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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2019-3497 Moderate Http-Parser DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey November 5, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautious security notice for CentOS Linux focusing on http-analyzer vulnerabilities and potential Denial of Service threats.
An update for http-parser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

The http-parser package provides a utility for parsing HTTP messages. It parses both requests and responses. The parser is designed to be used in performance HTTP applications. It does not make any system calls or allocations, it does not buffer data, and it can be interrupted at any time. Depending on your architecture, it only requires about 40 bytes of data per message stream.
Security Fix(es):
* nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers (CVE-2018-12121)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux Denial of Service http-parser

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-12121 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.1_release_notes/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.aarch64.rpm http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.aarch64.rpm http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.aarch64.rpm
ppc64le: http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.s390x.rpm http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.s390x.rpm http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.s390x.rpm
x86_64: http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.i686.rpm http-parser-2.8.0-5.el8.x86_64.rpm http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.i686.rpm http-parser-debuginfo-2.8.0-5.el8.x86_64.rpm http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.i686.rpm http-parser-debugsource-2.8.0-5.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:3497-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3497
Issue date: 2019-11-05

Topic

An update for http-parser is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix Red Hat Enterprise Linux Denial of Service http-parser

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1661002 - CVE-2018-12121 nodejs: Denial of Service with large HTTP headers

1686488 - 'make test' fails with stringop-overflow error

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