ALAS2-2023-1926

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2022-41717  

An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to allocate approximately 64 MiB per open connection. (CVE-2022-41717)

ALAS2-2023-1926


Amazon Linux 2 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1926
Advisory Release Date: 2023-01-30 16:02 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-02-04 18:28 Pacific
Severity: Medium
References: CVE-2022-41717 

Issue Overview:

An attacker can cause excessive memory growth in a Go server accepting HTTP/2 requests. HTTP/2 server connections contain a cache of HTTP header keys sent by the client. While the total number of entries in this cache is capped, an attacker sending very large keys can cause the server to allocate approximately 64 MiB per open connection. (CVE-2022-41717)


Affected Packages:

golang


Issue Correction:
pkg_manager = 'yum'Run update golang to update your system.

New Packages:
aarch64:
    golang-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    golang-bin-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64
    golang-shared-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.aarch64

noarch:
    golang-docs-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    golang-misc-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    golang-tests-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch
    golang-src-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.noarch

src:
    golang-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.src

x86_64:
    golang-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    golang-bin-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    golang-shared-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64
    golang-race-1.18.9-1.amzn2.0.1.x86_64