ALAS-2023-1870

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-2023-1870


Amazon Linux 1 Security Advisory: ALAS-2023-1870
Advisory Release Date: 2023-10-16 13:45 Pacific
Advisory Updated Date: 2023-10-18 20:09 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:

nginx


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

New Packages:
i686:
    nginx-mod-stream-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686
    nginx-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686
    nginx-mod-http-geoip-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686
    nginx-mod-http-perl-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686
    nginx-mod-mail-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686
    nginx-mod-http-xslt-filter-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686
    nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686
    nginx-all-modules-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686
    nginx-debuginfo-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.i686

src:
    nginx-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.src

x86_64:
    nginx-all-modules-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    nginx-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    nginx-mod-stream-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    nginx-mod-http-perl-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    nginx-mod-http-geoip-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    nginx-mod-mail-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    nginx-mod-http-xslt-filter-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    nginx-debuginfo-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64
    nginx-mod-http-image-filter-1.18.0-1.45.amzn1.x86_64