ALAS-2023-1869

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2023-44487  

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)

ALAS-2023-1869


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1869
Advisory Release Date: 2023-10-16 13:45 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-18 20:10 Pacific
Severity: Important

Issue Overview:

The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because request cancellation can reset many streams quickly, as exploited in the wild in August through October 2023. (CVE-2023-44487)


Affected Packages:

nghttp2


Issue Correction:
Run yum update nghttp2 to update your system.

New Packages:
i686:
    nghttp2-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.i686
    nghttp2-debuginfo-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.i686
    libnghttp2-devel-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.i686
    libnghttp2-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.i686

src:
    nghttp2-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    nghttp2-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.x86_64
    libnghttp2-devel-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.x86_64
    libnghttp2-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.x86_64
    nghttp2-debuginfo-1.33.0-1.1.8.amzn1.x86_64