SB2019031422 - Fedora 30 update for mod_http2
Published: March 14, 2019 Updated: April 24, 2025
Security Bulletin ID
SB2019031422
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2018-17189)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause DoS condition on the target system.The weakness exists due to an error when handling malicious input. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted request bodies in a slow loris way to plain resources and cause the h2 stream for that request unnecessarily occupied a server thread cleaning up that incoming data.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.